retirar
Meaning
- (transitive) to take away (to remove something and put it in a different place)
- (transitive) to take away (to remove something so that a person no longer has it)
- (transitive) to take away (to subtract or diminish something)
- (transitive) to take away (to make someone leave a place and go somewhere else)
- (transitive) to withdraw (to take away or take back)
- (transitive) to withdraw (to extract money from a bank account)
- (transitive) to withdraw (to draw or pull something aside)
- (transitive) to take back (to retract or withdraw an earlier statement)
- (transitive) to retract (to pull something back or back inside)
- (transitive) to draw out; to extract; to remove
- (reflexive) to retreat (to leave a battle or position where they are stationed)
- (formal,reflexive) to leave; to go away
- (reflexive) to retire
- (reflexive) to give up
Frequency
Hyphenated as
re‧ti‧rar
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ʁe.t͡ʃiˈɾa(ʁ)/
Etymology
From re- + tirar.
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