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Retire

verb

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

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

Withdraw from active participation. Synonym: withdraw.

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"

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

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

Make (someone) retire.

Dispose of (something no longer useful or needed).

Lose interest. Synonym: withdraw.

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

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

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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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"Retire" Quotes from Famous Books

... of Miranda, the maid, reminded the children of their errand; and having delivered their offerings, they were about to retire in some confusion, ...

— Under the Lilacs • Louisa May Alcott

... inserted something suppressed in subsequent editions, which was interpreted to denote some relaxation of his loyalty. In this preface he declares, that "his desire had been for some days past, and did still very vehemently continue, to retire himself to some of the American plantations, and to forsake this ...

— Lives of the Poets, Vol. 1 • Samuel Johnson

... is no other than the celebrated actress, Juliet Hildebrand. The Veiled Lady and she are one and the same. Before we retire from this spot, let me explain that Mr. Snooks, the deceased, was run over by her automobile an hour or so ago. His back was broken. I merely put an end ...

— Anderson Crow, Detective • George Barr McCutcheon

... pioneers, we naturally look for this element. We find it abundantly in their early verses. When Thomas was only seventeen—the precocity of the brothers was remarkable—he wrote a "Pleasures of Melancholy," in which he expresses his wish to retire to "solemn glooms, congenial to the soul." In the early odes of his brother Joseph we find still more clearly indicated the intention to withdraw from the world, in order to indulge the susceptibilities of the ...

— Some Diversions of a Man of Letters • Edmund William Gosse

... began at once, and for a time the struggle was fierce. But at close quarters one Zulu was a match for ten Balotsi, so the assailants were soon glad to retire, leaving nearly a hundred dead behind them. The Zulus lost about five or six men. It was broad daylight when the Balotsi drew off, and the Zulus could see their enemies massed round them in every direction, and outnumbering them excessively. Both parties paused for a time, each watching ...

— Kafir Stories - Seven Short Stories • William Charles Scully

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