retire

Plural: retires

Verb

Verb Forms: retired, retiring, retires

• To cease one's work or withdraw from a position.
• go into retirement; stop performing one's work or withdraw from one's position
  • "He retired at age 68"
• withdraw from active participation
  • "He retired from chess"
• pull back or move away or backward
• withdraw from circulation or from the market, as of bills, shares, and bonds
• break from a meeting or gathering
  • "The men retired to the library"
• make (someone) retire
  • "The director was retired after the scandal"
• dispose of (something no longer useful or needed)
  • "She finally retired that old coat"
• lose interest
  • "he retired from life when his wife died"
• cause to be out on a fielding play
• cause to get out
  • "The pitcher retired three batters"
• prepare for sleep
• To stop working on a permanent basis, usually because of old age or illness.
• To stop playing their sport and in competitions a sports player.
• To withdraw; to take away.
• To cease use or production of something.
• To withdraw from circulation, or from the market; to take up and pay.
• To cause to retire; specifically, to designate as no longer qualified for active service; to place on the retired list.
• To voluntarily stop batting before being dismissed so that the next batsman can bat.
• To make a play which results in a runner or the batter being out, either by means of a put out, fly out or strikeout. Also, when such an event ends a team's turn at bat.
• To go back or return; to withdraw or retreat, especially from public view; to go into privacy.
• To retreat from action or danger; to withdraw for safety or pleasure.
• To recede; to fall or bend back.
• To go to bed.
• To fit (a vehicle) with new tires.

Noun

• The act of retiring, or the state of being retired.
• A place to which one retires.
• A call sounded on a bugle, announcing to skirmishers that they are to retire, or fall back.

Examples

• After his opponent played a seven-letter word, he wanted to retire from the game.
• At the retire, the cavalry fell back.
• Having made a large fortune, he retired.
• He wants to retire at 55.
• I have decided to retire from football at the end of the season after the World Cup.
• I have decided to retire from test cricket at 45.
• I will retire for the night.
• I will retire to the study.
• Jones makes the catch for the third out, and that retires the side.
• Jones retired in favour of Smith.
• Jones retired Smith 6-3.
• Past the point, the shore retires into a sequence of coves.
• She decided to retire from her banking job due to stress.
• The board retired the old major.
• The central bank retired those notes five years ago.
• The regiment retired from the fray after the Major was killed.
• The steamship made thousands of trips over several decades before it was retired by the shipping company.
• to retire from battle
• to retire from the public eye
• to retire from the world
• When a hurricane becomes so deadly or destructive that future use would be insensitive, officials may retire the name of the hurricane.

Synonyms

adjourn, bed, crawl in, draw back, go to bed, go to sleep, hit the hay, hit the sack, kip down, move back, pull away, pull back, put out, recede, retreat, sack out, strike out, turn in, withdraw

Antonyms

advance, get up, turn out

Related Words

tirer