verb
- Go into retirement; stop performing one's work or withdraw from one's position.
- usage: "He retired at age 68"
- synonyms: retire
- Withdraw from active participation.
- usage: "He retired from chess"
- Pull back or move away or backward.
- usage: "The enemy withdrew"; "The limo pulled away from the curb"
- Withdraw from circulation or from the market, as of bills, shares, and bonds.
- synonyms: retire
- Break from a meeting or gathering.
- usage: "We adjourned for lunch"; "The men retired to the library"
- Make (someone) retire.
- usage: "The director was retired after the scandal"
- synonyms: retire
- Dispose of (something no longer useful or needed. )
- usage: "She finally retired that old coat"
- synonyms: retire
- Lose interest.
- usage: "he retired from life when his wife died"
- Cause to be out on a fielding play.
- Cause to get out.
- usage: "The pitcher retired three batters"; "the runner was put out at third base"
- synonyms: retire, strike out
- Prepare for sleep.
- usage: "I usually turn in at midnight"; "He goes to bed at the crack of dawn"
- synonyms: go to bed, turn in, bed, crawl in, kip down, hit the hay, hit the sack, sack out, go to sleep, retire
adjective
- No longer active in your work or profession. .
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