Retire
To withdraw; to take away; -- sometimes used reflexively.
To withdraw from circulation, or from the market; to take up and pay; as, to retire bonds; to retire a note.
To cause to retire; specifically, to designate as no longer qualified for active service; to place on the retired list; as, to retire a military or naval officer.
To go back or return; to draw back or away; to keep aloof; to withdraw or retreat, as from observation; to go into privacy; as, to retire to his home; to retire from the world, or from notice.
To retreat from action or danger; to withdraw for safety or pleasure; as, to retire from battle.
To withdraw from a public station, or from business; as, having made a large fortune, he retired.
To recede; to fall or bend back; as, the shore of the sea retires in bays and gulfs.
To go to bed; as, he usually retires early.
The act of retiring, or the state of being retired; also, a place to which one retires.
A call sounded on a bugle, announcing to skirmishers that they are to retire, or fall back.
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Retire Quotations
Writers don't retire. I will always be a writer.
Andy Rooney
Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.
Margaret Mead
To retire is to begin to die.
Pablo Casals
To retire is to die.
Pablo Casals
When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned.
Richard M. Nixon
I love scoring goals for England and playing for England. That's one of the reasons I didn't retire - I love playing for my country.
David Beckham
I think that in a year I may retire. I cannot take my money with me when I die and I wish to enjoy it, with my family, while I live. I should prefer living in Germany to any other country, though I am an American, and am loyal to my country.
Harry Houdini
I've decided to pick my moment to retire very carefully - in about 200 years time.
Brian Clough
Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.
Baltasar Gracian
When one is required to preside over the Church, and be entrusted with the care of so many souls, the whole female sex must retire before the magnitude of the task, and the majority of men also.
John Chrysostom
Retire Translations
retire in Afrikaans is aftree
retire in Dutch is aftreden, met pensioen gaan
retire in French is retirent, retirez, se retirer, retirer, retirons
retire in Latin is defungo, abeo, recedo, cubitum ire, recedo
retire in Portuguese is aposente
retire in Spanish is retirarse
retire in Swedish is retirera, dra sig tillbaka
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