Definition of retire

"retire" in the verb sense

1. retire

go into retirement stop performing one's work or withdraw from one's position

"He retired at age 68"

2. retire, withdraw

withdraw from active participation

"He retired from chess"

3. withdraw, retreat, pull away, draw back, recede, pull back, retire, move back

pull back or move away or backward

"The enemy withdrew"

"The limo pulled away from the curb"

4. retire

withdraw from circulation or from the market, as of bills, shares, and bonds

5. adjourn, withdraw, retire

break from a meeting or gathering

"We adjourned for lunch"

"The men retired to the library"

6. retire

make (someone) retire

"The director was retired after the scandal"

7. retire

dispose of (something no longer useful or needed

"She finally retired that old coat"

8. retire, withdraw

lose interest

"he retired from life when his wife died"

9. put out, retire

cause to be out on a fielding play

10. retire, strike out

cause to get out

"The pitcher retired three batters"

"the runner was put out at third base"

11. go to bed, turn in, bed, crawl in, kip down, hit the hay, hit the sack, sack out, go to sleep, retire

prepare for sleep

"I usually turn in at midnight"

"He goes to bed at the crack of dawn"

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Quotations for retire

Experience, next, to thee I owe,
Best guide; not following thee, I had remained
In ignorance; thou open'st wisdom's way.
And giv'st access, though secret she retire. [ Milton ]

To retire into a Dutch cheese, (i.e. to be contented.) [ La Fontaine ]

Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire. [ Dr. Samuel Johnson ]

It is the secret of the world that all things subsist, and do not die, but only retire a little from sight, and afterwards return again. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

In the matter of diet - which is another main thing - I have been persistently strict in sticking to the things which didn't agree with me until one or the other of us got the best of it. Until lately I got the best of it myself. But last spring I stopped frolicking with mince-pie after midnight; up to then I had always believed it wasn't loaded. For thirty years I have taken coffee and bread at eight in the morning, and no bite nor sup until seven-thirty in the evening. Eleven hours. That is all right for me, and is wholesome, because I have never had a headache in my life, but headachy people would not reach seventy comfortably by that road, and they would be foolish to try it. And I wish to urge upon you this - which I think is wisdom - that if you find you can't make seventy by any but an uncomfortable road, don't you go. When they take off the Pullman and retire you to the rancid smoker, put on your things, count your checks, and get out at the first way station where there's a cemetery. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

retire in Scrabble®

The word retire is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters retire:

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retire in Words With Friends™

The word retire is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 6

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters retire:

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Words containing the sequence retire

Words with retire in them (3 words)

Words that end with retire (2 words)

Word Growth involving retire

Shorter words in retire

re ire tire

Longer words containing retire

retired semiretired

retiree retirees

retirement retirements

retirement semiretirement

retirer retirers

retires

unretire