Definition of retire

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Retire (v. i.) To retreat from action or danger; to withdraw for safety or pleasure; as, to retire from battle..

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Retirement :: Retirement (n.) A place of seclusion or privacy; a place to which one withdraws or retreats; a private abode.
Retreat :: Retreat (v. i.) To make a retreat; to retire from any position or place; to withdraw; as, the defeated army retreated from the field..
Retire :: Retire (n.) A call sounded on a bugle, announcing to skirmishers that they are to retire, or fall back..
Seguestration :: Seguestration (n.) The state of being separated or set aside; separation; retirement; seclusion from society.
Secret :: Secret (a.) Withdraw from general intercourse or notice; in retirement or secrecy; secluded.
Recluse :: Recluse (a.) Shut up; sequestered; retired from the world or from public notice; solitary; living apart; as, a recluse monk or hermit; a recluse life..
Privacy :: Privacy (n.) A place of seclusion from company or observation; retreat; solitude; retirement.
Lucubration :: Lucubration (n.) That which is composed by night; that which is produced by meditation in retirement; hence (loosely) any literary composition.
Latibulize :: Latibulize (v. i.) To retire into a den, or hole, and lie dormant in winter; to retreat and lie hid..
Monastery :: Monastery (n.) A house of religious retirement, or of secusion from ordinary temporal concerns, especially for monks; -- more rarely applied to such a house for females..
Privy :: Privy (a.) Appropriated to retirement; private; not open to the public.
Descend :: Descend (v. i.) To enter mentally; to retire.
Retired :: Retired (imp. & p. p.) of Retir.
Sequestered :: Sequestered (a.) Retired; secluded.
Regrade :: Regrade (v. i.) To retire; to go back.
Reduit :: Reduit (n.) A central or retired work within any other work.
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..
Retire :: Retire (v. i.) To withdraw from a public station, or from business; as, having made a large fortune, he retired..
Hermit :: Hermit (n.) A person who retires from society and lives in solitude; a recluse; an anchoret; especially, one who so lives from religious motives..
Solitary :: Solitary (a.) ot much visited or frequented remote from society; retired; lonely; as, a solitary residence or place..
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