Crossword-Solution: RETIRE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| 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. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| RETIRE | anagram | REITER |
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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…
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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).