Definition of retire

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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..

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Lonely :: Lonely (superl.) Sequestered from company or neighbors; solitary; retired; as, a lonely situation; a lonely cell..
Retire :: Retire (v. t.) To withdraw; to take away; -- sometimes used reflexively.
Privacy :: Privacy (n.) The state of being in retirement from the company or observation of others; seclusion.
Sequestered :: Sequestered (a.) Retired; secluded.
Secrecy :: Secrecy (n.) Seclusion; privacy; retirement.
Covert :: Covert (v. t.) Sheltered; not open or exposed; retired; protected; as, a covert nook..
Privateness :: Privateness (n.) Seclusion from company or society; retirement; privacy; secrecy.
Retirer :: Retirer (n.) One who retires.
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..
Reduit :: Reduit (n.) A central or retired work within any other work.
Private :: Private (n.) Privacy; retirement.
Rise :: Rise (v.) To retire; to give up a siege.
Background :: Background (n.) A place in obscurity or retirement, or out of sight..
Retiring :: Retiring (a.) Of or pertaining to retirement; causing retirement; suited to, or belonging to, 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..
Avoid :: Avoid (v. i.) To retire; to withdraw.
Loneliness :: Loneliness (n.) Love of retirement; disposition to solitude.
Withdraw :: Withdraw (v. i.) To retire; to retreat; to quit a company or place; to go away; as, he withdrew from the company..
Retired :: Retired (a.) Withdrawn from active duty or business; as, a retired officer; a retired physician..
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..
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