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/rɪtˈaɪrɪŋ/ /ritˈaɪərɪŋ/ /ritˈaɪrɪŋ/ Listen

Retiring

adjective

1.

Not arrogant or presuming. Synonym: unassuming. "A shy retiring girl"

2.

Of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office. Synonyms: past, preceding.

3.

Reluctant to draw attention to yourself. Synonyms: reticent, self-effacing.

Retire

verb

(past & past part. retired; pres. part. retiring)

1.

Go into retirement; stop performing one's work or withdraw from one's position.

2.

Withdraw from active participation. Synonym: withdraw.

3.

Pull back or move away or backward. Synonyms: draw back, move back, pull away, pull back, recede, retreat, withdraw. "The limo pulled away from the curb"

4.

Withdraw from circulation or from the market, as of bills, shares, and bonds.

5.

Break from a meeting or gathering. Synonyms: adjourn, withdraw. "The men retired to the library"

6.

Make (someone) retire.

7.

Dispose of (something no longer useful or needed).

8.

Lose interest. Synonym: withdraw.

9.

Cause to be out on a fielding play. Synonym: put out.

10.

Cause to get out. Synonym: strike out. "The runner was put out at third base"

11.

Prepare for sleep. Synonyms: bed, crawl in, go to bed, go to sleep, hit the hay, hit the sack, kip down, sack out, turn in. "He goes to bed at the crack of dawn"

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"Retiring" Quotes from Famous Books

... cushion from Douglas's under her hair—were to set their caps or cushions at the dignified Archdeacon, seen pacing the sands. But it was all of no avail. He had eyes for no one but the gentle, retiring Miss Bellairs. Aunt Aggie was to become the object of burning jealousy and detraction on the part of the female—that is to say almost the whole—population of Saundersfoot. But she herself, while envious ...

— Prisoners - Fast Bound In Misery And Iron • Mary Cholmondeley

... a short-sighted fool as not to insist on your retiring at the usual hour? The only thing that could make the expedient suggested by me effectual was that. Your Molly lying with you could avail you nothing, unless you actually passed the ...

— Jane Talbot • Charles Brockden Brown

... to rise was perforce the motto of its grimy crew, who lived near by. To-night they were just retiring when stayed by a summons at their door. The engineer opened it to admit what appeared to his astonished eyes to be a Krupp cannon propelled by a man in yellow-oiled clothes and white cotton mask. This weapon ...

— The Spoilers • Rex Beach

... nearly four hours she lay there, half dead with cold and terror, not daring to move from her place of concealment. She saw the flames of the dwelling, where so many lonely hours had been passed, rising above the trees, and heard the shrill "whoops" of the retiring Indians. Nero, who was lying by her side, suddenly rose and gave a low growl. Silently a dark figure came gliding among the trees directly to the spot where she lay. She gave herself up for lost; but it was the Indian woman, who ...

— Thrilling Adventures by Land and Sea • James O. Brayman

... that there was something terribly wrong, for the boys, even Hamish, went off after supper, and Old Farquhar did not sing his accustomed song before retiring. And when Scotty went up to bed in the loft he left Granny praying by the bed in the corner, and he could hear the steady tramp, tramp of his grandfather's feet up and down in the snow outside. He half woke late in the night and found that Hamish was beside him; the problems ...

— The Silver Maple • Marian Keith

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