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Retiring   /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"  Antonym: advance.
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"  Antonyms: get up, turn out.



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"Retiring" Quotes from Famous Books



... was no cessation of the Confederate fire. Sumter and Gregg threw their shells along with those of Wagner upon the retiring foe; nor was the conflict over in the fort itself. The party which had gained access by the salient next the sea could not escape. It was certain death to attempt to pass the line of concentrated fire which swept the faces of the work, ...
— The Black Phalanx - African American soldiers in the War of Independence, the - War of 1812, and the Civil War • Joseph T. Wilson
... of retiring,' rejoined the host, taken with the appearance and manner of the young man. 'Your friend's table must have been cleared long ago, if, as you say, four was the hour named, and I am too happy to be able to offer you a ...
— The Wits and Beaux of Society - Volume 2 • Grace & Philip Wharton
... became convalescent, the regulations which he issued for the army, and the orders that he sent to the coast, for every available man to be sent up to reinforce him, showed the soldiers that he had no intentions of retiring; and a remonstrance was signed, by a large number of officers and soldiers, against a further stay in the country. But Cortez was not shaken. He prayed them not to discredit the great name they had won, nor to leave their glorious enterprise for others, ...
— By Right of Conquest - Or, With Cortez in Mexico • G. A. Henty
... hurriedly and answered; and forthwith told her all about old goody Liu's visit. Having waited for a while, and seeing that madame Wang had nothing to say, she was on the point of retiring, when "aunt" Hsueh unexpectedly remarked smiling: "Wait a bit! I've something to give you to take ...
— Hung Lou Meng, Book I • Cao Xueqin
... cleverer but they have not the childish self-confidence with which our political leaders publish their incapacity in its complete nakedness as a model and pattern. How have we Germans got the reputation of retiring modesty? There is not a single one of us who does not think that he understands everything, from strategy to picking the fleas off a dog, better than professionals who have devoted ...
— Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire • James Wycliffe Headlam


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