Crossword-Solution: RETIRE 6 letters, 140 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

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Word Word Type Definition
Retire v. t. To withdraw; to take away; -- sometimes used
reflexively.
Retire v. t. To withdraw from circulation, or from the market; to
take up and pay; as, to retire bonds; to retire a note.
Retire v. t. 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.
Retire v. i. 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.
Retire v. i. To retreat from action or danger; to withdraw for safety
or pleasure; as, to retire from battle.
Retire v. i. To withdraw from a public station, or from business; as,
having made a large fortune, he retired.
Retire v. i. To recede; to fall or bend back; as, the shore of the
sea retires in bays and gulfs.
Retire v. i. To go to bed; as, he usually retires early.
Retire n. The act of retiring, or the state of being retired; also, a
place to which one retires.
Retire n. A call sounded on a bugle, announcing to skirmishers that
they are to retire, or fall back.

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RETIRE anagram REITER

We have 140 clues for the answer “RETIRE”

Clue Answers
Advice to one who is superannuated 1 answer
Become a pensioner 1 answer
Call it a career 1 answer
Call it a day ... or a career 1 answer
Call it a night or a day 1 answer
Collect Canada Pension 1 answer
Collect one's pension 1 answer
Conclude a career 1 answer
Drop activity. 1 answer
Emulate Pele or Orr 1 answer
End a career 1 answer
Get a new set of radials 1 answer
Give up work 1 answer
Give up work and go to bed 1 answer
Give up working 1 answer
Go into retreat. 1 answer
Go on Social Security 1 answer
Go on Social Security, maybe 1 answer
Go on a pension 1 answer
Go out after work? 1 answer
Hang 'em up 1 answer
Hang it up, so to speak 1 answer
Hang up one's jersey 1 answer
Hang up the cleats, so to speak 1 answer
Hang up the gloves 1 answer
Hang up the spikes 1 answer
Head for bed 1 answer
Join the leisure class? 1 answer
Join the pensioners 1 answer
Leave at 70, e.g. 1 answer
Leave one's post, possibly 1 answer
Leave the business whirl. 1 answer
Leave the work force 1 answer
Leave the workforce 1 answer
Leave work permanently 1 answer
Make more time for hobbies, say 1 answer
Many people do this AT AGE 65 1 answer
Move to Arizona, maybe 1 answer
Move to Florida, maybe 1 answer
Move to Florida? 1 answer
Move to a warmer climate? 1 answer
Not stay up 1 answer
Opt for ease 1 answer
Opt for the gold watch? 1 answer
PUT new shoes on 1 answer
Peace out, career-wise 1 answer
Put out (a batter, side, etc.). 1 answer
Put out a batter. 1 answer
Put out to pasture 1 answer
Put out, as a batsman. 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with RETIRE (5)

Though I uncircumscrib’d my self retire, And put not forth my goodness, which is free To act or not, Necessitie and Chance Approach not mee, and what I will is Fate.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
Certain it is, his advances were signals for rival candidates to retire, who felt no inclination to cross a lion in his amours; insomuch, that when his horse was seen tied to Van Tassel’s paling, on a Sunday night, a sure sign that his master was courting, or, as it is termed, “sparking,” within, all other suitors passed by in despair, and carried the war into other quarters.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Washington Irving 1992
Fezziwig had gone all through the dance; advance and retire, both hands to your partner, bow and curtsey, corkscrew, thread-the-needle, and back again to your place; Fezziwig "cut"--cut so deftly, that he appeared to wink with his legs, and came upon his feet again without a stagger.
A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens 1992
For whither is he gone? what accident Hath rapt him from us? will he now retire 40 After appearance, and again prolong Our expectation? God of Israel, Send thy Messiah forth; the time is come.
Paradise Regained John Milton 1993
Neither will he deserve the blame,” added she more kindly, remembering Uncle Venner’s privileges of age and humble familiarity, “if I should, by and by, find it convenient to retire with you to your farm.” “And it’s no bad place, either, that farm of mine!” cried the old man cheerily, as if there were something positively delightful in the prospect.
The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne 1993

Quotes with RETIRE (3)

But it so happens that everything on this planet is, ultimately, irrational; there is not, and cannot be, any reason for the causal connexion of things, if only because our use of the word "reason" already implies the idea of causal connexion. But, even if we avoid this fundamental difficulty, Hume said that causal connexion was not merely unprovable, but unthinkable; and, in shallower waters still, one cannot assign a true reason why water should flow down hill, or sugar tas…
Aleister Crowley
Men seek retreats for themselves, houses in the country, sea-shores, and mountains; and thou too art wont to desire such things very much. But this is altogether a mark of the most common sort of men, for it is in thy power whenever thou shalt choose to retire into thyself. For nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom from trouble does a man retire than into his own soul, particularly when he has within him such thoughts that by looking into them he is immediately in pe…
Marcus Aurelius The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
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Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 174 times in crossword archives (1950–2025).