Definition of retire

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Retire (n.) The act of retiring, or the state of being retired; also, a place to which one retires..

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Sequester :: Sequester (v. t.) To cause to retire or withdraw into obscurity; to seclude; to withdraw; -- often used reflexively.
Retire :: Retire (v. t.) To withdraw; to take away; -- sometimes used reflexively.
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..
Retreat :: Retreat (n.) The place to which anyone retires; a place or privacy or safety; a refuge; an asylum.
Chamber :: Chamber (n.) A retired room, esp. an upper room used for sleeping; a bedroom; as, the house had four chambers..
Retire :: Retire (v. i.) To recede; to fall or bend back; as, the shore of the sea retires in bays and gulfs..
Evacuate :: Evacuate (v. t.) To withdraw from; to quit; to retire from; as, soldiers from a country, city, or fortress..
Lucubration :: Lucubration (n.) That which is composed by night; that which is produced by meditation in retirement; hence (loosely) any literary composition.
Country Seat :: Country seat () A dwelling in the country, used as a place of retirement from the city..
Fireside :: Fireside (n.) A place near the fire or hearth; home; domestic life or retirement.
Secess :: Secess (n.) Retirement; retreat; secession.
Privacy :: Privacy (n.) A place of seclusion from company or observation; retreat; solitude; retirement.
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..
Withdraw :: Withdraw (v. i.) To retire; to retreat; to quit a company or place; to go away; as, he withdrew from the company..
Rise :: Rise (v.) To retire; to give up a siege.
Privacy :: Privacy (n.) The state of being in retirement from the company or observation of others; seclusion.
Private :: Private (n.) Privacy; retirement.
Retire :: 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..
Recoil :: Recoil (v. i.) To turn or go back; to withdraw one's self; to retire.
Reclusive :: Reclusive (a.) Affording retirement from society.
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