# retirar
## Catalan
### Etymology

From re- +‎ tirar.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [rə.tiˈɾa]
* IPA: (Valencia) [re.tiˈɾaɾ]
* Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

### Verb

retirar (first-person singular present retiro, first-person singular preterite retirí, past participle retirat)
* to take away, remove
* to take out, extract (money)
* (reflexive) to leave, go out
* (reflexive) to retire (stop working)
* (reflexive) to pull out, leave
* to retire, go to bed

#### Derived terms

* enretirar
* retir
* retirada
* retirament
* retirança
* retiratge

### Further reading

* “retirar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “retirar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “retirar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “retirar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Portuguese
### Etymology

From re- +‎ tirar.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ʁe.t͡ʃiˈɾa(ʁ)/ [he.t͡ʃiˈɾa(h)]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ʁe.t͡ʃiˈɾa(ʁ)/ [he.t͡ʃiˈɾa(h)]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /ʁe.t͡ʃiˈɾa(ɾ)/ [he.t͡ʃiˈɾa(ɾ)]
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ʁe.t͡ʃiˈɾa(ʁ)/ [χe.t͡ʃiˈɾa(χ)]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ʁe.t͡ʃiˈɾa(ɻ)/ [he.t͡ʃiˈɾa(ɻ)]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ʁɨ.tiˈɾaɾ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ʁɨ.tiˈɾaɾ/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /ʁɨ.tiˈɾa.ɾi/
* Hyphenation: re‧ti‧rar

### Verb

retirar (first-person singular present retiro, first-person singular preterite retirei, past participle retirado)
* (transitive) to take away (to remove something and put it in a different place)
    Synonym: recolher
* (transitive) to take away (to remove something so that a person no longer has it)
    Synonyms: confiscar, tomar
* (transitive) to take away (to subtract or diminish something)
    Synonym: tirar
* (transitive) to take away (to make someone leave a place and go somewhere else)
    Synonyms: conduzir, levar
* (transitive) to withdraw (to take away or take back)
* (transitive, banking, finance) to withdraw (to extract money from a bank account)
    Synonym: sacar
* (transitive) to withdraw (to draw or pull something aside)
* (transitive) to take back (to retract or withdraw an earlier statement)
    Eu retiro o que disseI take back what I've said
* (transitive) to retract (to pull something back or back inside)
    Synonym: retrair
* (transitive) to draw out; to extract; to remove
* (reflexive, military) to retreat (to leave a battle or position where they are stationed)
    Synonym: recuar
* (reflexive, formal) to leave; to go away
    Synonyms: ausentar-se, sair
* (reflexive with de) to retire
* (reflexive with de) to give up

#### Usage notes

* This verb is considered formal in most cases and is usually replaced by its synonyms.

#### Conjugation

$^1$Brazilian Portuguese. $^2$European Portuguese.

#### Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:retirar.

### Further reading

* “retirar”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
* “retirar”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), Porto: 7Graus, 2009–2025
* “retirar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
* “retirar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
* “retirar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025

## Spanish
### Etymology

From re- +‎ tirar. Cognate with English retire.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /retiˈɾaɾ/ [re.t̪iˈɾaɾ]
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Syllabification: re‧ti‧rar

### Verb

retirar (first-person singular present retiro, first-person singular preterite retiré, past participle retirado)
* to remove
* to withdraw
* (reflexive) to retreat, to withdraw
** 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 56:En la laguna de Pudahel estuvo encantado un carretero con la carreta y los bueyes que guiaba, a los cuales todas las noches se le sentía azuzar con viveza. Quedó encantado por haber querido atravesar la laguna: ésta se fué retirando a medida que el carretero avanzaba, y cuando estuvo en mitad de ella, las aguas lo envolvieron.(please add an English translation of this quotation)
* (reflexive) to retire (for a reason other than age)
    Synonym: (for age) jubilarse
    La estrella no tenía más remedio que retirarse después de una conmoción grave.The star had no choice but to retire after a really bad concussion.

#### Usage notes

* Retirar is a false friend, and does not mean retire in Spanish. The Spanish word for that English meaning of retirar is jubilar. However, it is frequently used with that meaning in Spanglish and American Spanish.

#### Conjugation

$^1$Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language. $^2$Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.

### Further reading

* “retirar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10