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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.

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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"Retire" Quotes from Famous Books

... is ever fraught with loss of dignity. But there were those volunteers that M. de Cussy was enrolling to strengthen the hand of the King's General. Their presence might admit anon of the reopening of this question. Meanwhile he must retire ...

— Captain Blood • Rafael Sabatini

... individual and new. The exciting tension and lively stimulus may please in their way, yet the badge of the accidental and unmeaning adheres to the thing. It is a trivial experience and one quickly forgotten. The shock is superficial and were it repeated would soon fatigue. We should retire with relief into darkness and silence, to our ...

— The Life of Reason • George Santayana

... visitings of this light called up a train of horrors in my mind; destruction impended over this spot; the voice which I had lately heard had warned me to retire, and had menaced me with the fate of my father if I refused. I was desirous, but unable to obey; these gleams were such as preluded the stroke by which he fell; the hour, perhaps, was the same. I shuddered as if I had beheld suspended ...

— Stories by Modern American Authors • Julian Hawthorne

... forever with the elements. To be a brother to the insensible rock And to the sluggish clod, which the rude swain Turns with his share, and treads upon. The oak Shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mould. Yet not to thine eternal resting-place Shalt thou retire alone—nor couldst thou wish Couch more magnificent. Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world—with kings, The powerful of the earth—the wise, the good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in ...

— Graded Memory Selections • Various

... including Kashmir if tradition may be believed, but his chief residence was Srirangam. Towards the end of the eleventh century however, the hostility of the Chola King Kulottunga, who was an intolerant Sivaite, forced him to retire to Mysore. Here he was protected by King Vittala Deva whom he converted from Jainism and on the death of Kulottunga in 1118 he returned to Srirangam where he ended his days. In the temple there his tomb and a shrine where ...

— Hinduism And Buddhism, Volume II. (of 3) - An Historical Sketch • Charles Eliot

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