Definition of retire

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Retire (v. t.) To withdraw; to take away; -- sometimes used reflexively.

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Country Seat :: Country seat () A dwelling in the country, used as a place of retirement from the city..
Secrecy :: Secrecy (n.) Seclusion; privacy; retirement.
Retire :: Retire (v. i.) To withdraw from a public station, or from business; as, having made a large fortune, he retired..
Obscure :: Obscure (superl.) Of or pertaining to darkness or night; inconspicuous to the sight; indistinctly seen; hidden; retired; remote from observation; unnoticed.
Private :: Private (n.) Privacy; retirement.
Loneliness :: Loneliness (n.) Love of retirement; disposition to solitude.
Cabinet :: Cabinet (n.) A small room, or retired apartment; a closet..
Retired :: Retired (a.) Withdrawn from active duty or business; as, a retired officer; a retired physician..
Cloister :: Cloister (v. t.) A monastic establishment; a place for retirement from the world for religious duties.
Privateness :: Privateness (n.) Seclusion from company or society; retirement; privacy; secrecy.
Pension :: Pension (n.) A stated allowance to a person in consideration of past services; payment made to one retired from service, on account of age, disability, or other cause; especially, a regular stipend paid by a government to retired public officers, disabled soldiers, the families of soldiers killed in service, or to meritorious authors, or the like..
Monk :: Monk (n.) A man who retires from the ordinary temporal concerns of the world, and devotes himself to religion; one of a religious community of men inhabiting a monastery, and bound by vows to a life of chastity, obedience, and poverty..
Rebut :: Rebut (v. i.) To retire; to recoil.
Retire :: Retire (v. i.) To retreat from action or danger; to withdraw for safety or pleasure; as, to retire from battle..
Seguestration :: Seguestration (n.) The state of being separated or set aside; separation; retirement; seclusion from society.
Draw :: Draw (v. i.) To move; to come or go; literally, to draw one's self; -- with prepositions and adverbs; as, to draw away, to move off, esp. in racing, to get in front; to obtain the lead or increase it; to draw back, to retreat; to draw level, to move up even (with another); to come up to or overtake another; to draw off, to retire or retreat; to draw on, to advance; to draw up, to form in array; to draw near, nigh, or towards, to approach; to draw together, to come together, to collect..
Boudoir :: Boudoir (n.) A small room, esp. if pleasant, or elegantly furnished, to which a lady may retire to be alone, or to receive intimate friends; a lady's (or sometimes a gentleman's) private room..
Umbratical :: Umbratical (a.) Of or pertaining to the shade or darkness; shadowy; unreal; secluded; retired.
Chamber :: Chamber (n.) A retired room, esp. an upper room used for sleeping; a bedroom; as, the house had four chambers..
Regrade :: Regrade (v. i.) To retire; to go back.
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