retire

Meaning

Verb

1. To stop working on a permanent basis, usually because of old age or illness.
2. To stop playing their sport and in competitions a sports player.
3. To withdraw; to take away.
4. To cease use or production of something.
5. To withdraw from circulation, or from the market; to take up and pay.
6. To cause to retire; specifically, to designate as no longer qualified for active service; to place on the retired list.
7. To voluntarily stop batting before being dismissed so that the next batsman can bat.
8. 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.
9. To go back or return; to withdraw or retreat, especially from public view; to go into privacy.
10. To retreat from action or danger; to withdraw for safety or pleasure.
11. To recede; to fall or bend back.
12. To go to bed.

Noun

1. The act of retiring, or the state of being retired.
2. A place to which one retires.
3. A call sounded on a bugle, announcing to skirmishers that they are to retire, or fall back.

Hyphenated as

re‧tire

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɹəˈtaɪə(ɹ)/

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.