retire
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
baseball
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From Middle French retirer (“draw back”), from Old French retirer, built from re- (“back”) + tirer (“draw, pull”), the latter from Vulgar Latin *tīrāre, of highly uncertain origin.
Inflected forms:
form: retires
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: retiring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: retired
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: retired
pos: verb
tags: past
form: retires
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To stop working on a permanent basis, usually because of old age or illness.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Having made a large fortune, he retired.
He wants to retire at 55.
She decided to retire from her banking job due to stress.
Green will never forget "that was the day I retired - the absolute crowning event of my life and I was very proud of that.
gloss: To stop playing their sport and in competitions a sports player.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To withdraw; to take away.
pos: verb
tags: reflexive
sometimes
transitive
examples: He […] retired himself, his wife, and children into a forest.
As when the sun is present all the year, / And never doth retire his golden ray.
gloss: To cease use or production of something.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The steamship made thousands of trips over several decades before it was retired by the shipping company.
When a hurricane becomes so deadly or destructive that future use would be insensitive, officials may retire the name of the hurricane.
Only now, due to the COVID-19-associated drop in traffic, are they being retired with 12 of the 30 trains moved to Landore (Swansea) for warm storage.
gloss: To withdraw from circulation, or from the market; to take up and pay.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The central bank retired those notes five years ago.
gloss: To cause to retire; specifically, to designate as no longer qualified for active service; to place on the retired list.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The board retired the old major.
How had it felt, at 28, to be the hottest young actor in town? He [Richard Gere] grinned. “It was great having the attention,” he said. “I thought: ‘This is it! I’ve done it! I’m going to retire my father. I’m putting money away for college for my sisters,’ the whole thing. It’s incredibly euphorious. All of a sudden the rehearsal period of your life is over, and your future has arrived. It’s liberating.”
By the time I first spoke to Magana in late 2022, 25/7 Media’s success had given him some measure of financial security. “The truth is that I just retired my parents,” he told me two days after Christmas.
gloss: To voluntarily stop batting before being dismissed so that the next batsman can bat.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Jones retired in favour of Smith.
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Jones retired Smith 6-3.
Jones makes the catch for the third out, and that retires the side.
gloss: To go back or return; to withdraw or retreat, especially from public view; to go into privacy.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I will retire to the study.
to retire from the world
to retire from the public eye
gloss: To retreat from action or danger; to withdraw for safety or pleasure.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: to retire from battle
The regiment retired from the fray after the Major was killed.
gloss: To recede; to fall or bend back.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Past the point, the shore retires into a sequence of coves.
gloss: To go to bed.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I will retire for the night.
In the daytime the beds are made up but completely out of sight, giving the passenger a comfortable little private room; as the time for retiring comes, after preparing for rest in the same spacious conditions, he is able, practically at a touch, to pull the bed into position ready for use.
gloss: The act of retiring, or the state of being retired.
pos: noun
tags: rare
gloss: A place to which one retires.
pos: noun
gloss: A call sounded on a bugle, announcing to skirmishers that they are to retire, or fall back.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: At the retire, the cavalry fell back.
Related words: retirement
tirer
Derived words: retire hurt
retirable
retiral
retirant
retiree
retirer
retire the side
unretire
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