retire

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• intransitive verb To withdraw from one's occupation or position, especially upon reaching a certain age; stop working.
• intransitive verb To move away or withdraw, as for rest or seclusion.
• intransitive verb To fall back or retreat, as from battle.
• intransitive verb To go to bed.
• intransitive verb To cause to withdraw from one's usual field of activity.
• intransitive verb To withdraw from use or active service.
• intransitive verb To take out of circulation.
• intransitive verb To pay off.
• intransitive verb To lead (troops, for example) away from action; withdraw.
• intransitive verb To put out (a batter).
• intransitive verb To cause (the opposing team) to end a turn at bat.

from The Century Dictionary.

• In the law of negotiable instruments: To take up (a bill or note) from a prior transferee and thereafter hold (it) with all remedies intact: said of an indorser.
• To retire (a bill or note) by taking (it) up at maturity, with all remedies on it extinguished: said of an acceptor.
• To draw back; take or lead back; cause to move backward or retreat.
• To take away; withdraw: remove.
• To lead apart from others; bring into retirement; remove as from a company or a frequented place into seclusion: generally with a reflexive pronoun.
• To withdraw; separate; abstract.
• Specifically, to remove from active service; place on the retired list, as of the army or navy.
• To recover; redeem; regain by the payment of a sum of money; hence, specifically, to withdraw from circulation by taking up and paying: as, to retire the bonds of a railway company; to retire a bill.
• To draw back; go back; return.
• To draw back; fall back; retreat, as from battle or danger.
• To withdraw; go away or apart; depart; especially, to betake one's self, as from a company or a frequented place, into privacy; go into retirement or seclusion; in the army or navy, to go voluntarily on the retired list.
• To withdraw from business or active life.
• Specifically, to go to bed.
• To slope back; recede; retreat.
• Synonyms and To depart, recede. See retreat.
• noun The act of retiring; withdrawal.
• noun Retreat, especially in war.
• noun Retirement; withdrawal into privacy or seclusion; hence, a state of retirement.
• noun A place of retirement or withdrawal.
• noun Repair; resort.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb To withdraw; to take away; -- sometimes used reflexively.
• transitive verb To withdraw from circulation, or from the market; to take up and pay
• transitive verb To cause to retire; specifically, to designate as no longer qualified for active service; to place on the retired list.
• intransitive verb To go back or return; to draw back or away; to keep aloof; to withdraw or retreat, as from observation; to go into privacy
• intransitive verb To retreat from action or danger; to withdraw for safety or pleasure.
• intransitive verb To withdraw from a public station, or from business.
• intransitive verb To recede; to fall or bend back.
• intransitive verb To go to bed.
• noun obsolete The act of retiring, or the state of being retired; also, a place to which one retires.
• noun (Mil.) A call sounded on a bugle, announcing to skirmishers that they are to retire, or fall back.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun rare The act of retiring, or the state of being retired; also, a place to which one retires.
• noun dated A call sounded on a bugle, announcing to skirmishers that they are to retire, or fall back.
• verb transitive To withdraw; to take away; -- sometimes used reflexively.
• verb transitive To withdraw from circulation, or from the market; to take up and pay; as, to retire bonds; to retire a note.
• verb transitive 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.