retire

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

• intransitive v. To withdraw, as for rest or seclusion.
• intransitive v. To go to bed.
• intransitive v. To withdraw from one's occupation, business, or office; stop working.
• intransitive v. To fall back or retreat, as from battle.
• intransitive v. To move back or away; recede.
• transitive v. To cause to withdraw from one's usual field of activity: retired all executives at 55.
• transitive v. To lead (troops, for example) away from action; withdraw.
• transitive v. To take out of circulation: retired the bonds.
• transitive v. To withdraw from use or active service: retiring an old battleship.
• transitive v. Baseball To put out (a batter).
• transitive v. Baseball To cause (the opposing team) to end a turn at bat.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

• n. The act of retiring, or the state of being retired; also, a place to which one retires.
• n. A call sounded on a bugle, announcing to skirmishers that they are to retire, or fall back.
• v. To withdraw; to take away; -- sometimes used reflexively.
• v. To withdraw from circulation, or from the market; to take up and pay; as, to retire bonds; to retire a note.
• v. 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.
• v. to voluntarily stop batting before being dismissed so that the next batsman can bat
• v. , to make a defensive play which results in a runner or the batter being put out
• v. 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.
• v. To retreat from action or danger; to withdraw for safety or pleasure; as, to retire from battle.
• v. To withdraw from a public station, from working, or from business
• v. To recede; to fall or bend back; as, the shore of the sea retires in bays and gulfs.
• v. To go to bed; as, he usually retires early.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

• 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.
• 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.
• n. The act of retiring; withdrawal.
• n. Retreat, especially in war.
• n. Retirement; withdrawal into privacy or seclusion; hence, a state of retirement.
• n. A place of retirement or withdrawal.
• n. Repair; resort.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• v. go into retirement; stop performing one's work or withdraw from one's position
• v. make (someone) retire
• v. pull back or move away or backward
• v. cause to be out on a fielding play
• v. withdraw from circulation or from the market, as of bills, shares, and bonds
• v. break from a meeting or gathering
• v. prepare for sleep
• v. cause to get out
• v. withdraw from active participation
• v. lose interest
• v. dispose of (something no longer useful or needed)