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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Cabinet :: Cabinet (n.) A small room, or retired apartment; a closet..
Regrade :: Regrade (v. i.) To retire; to go back.
Retreat :: Retreat (n.) The place to which anyone retires; a place or privacy or safety; a refuge; an asylum.
Sequester :: Sequester (v. i.) To withdraw; to retire.
Reclusion :: Reclusion (n.) A state of retirement from the world; seclusion.
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..
Forth :: Forth (adv.) Out, as from a state of concealment, retirement, confinement, nondevelopment, or the like; out into notice or view; as, the plants in spring put forth leaves..
Closet :: Closet (n.) A small room or apartment for retirement; a room for privacy.
Inch :: Inch (v. i.) To advance or retire by inches or small degrees; to move slowly.
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..
Orillon :: Orillon (n.) A semicircular projection made at the shoulder of a bastion for the purpose of covering the retired flank, -- found in old fortresses..
Abscondence :: Abscondence (n.) Fugitive concealment; secret retirement; hiding.
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..
Retire :: Retire (v. t.) To withdraw from circulation, or from the market; to take up and pay; as, to retire bonds; to retire a note..
By-place :: By-place (n.) A retired or private place.
Obscure :: Obscure (superl.) Of or pertaining to darkness or night; inconspicuous to the sight; indistinctly seen; hidden; retired; remote from observation; unnoticed.
Latibulize :: Latibulize (v. i.) To retire into a den, or hole, and lie dormant in winter; to retreat and lie hid..
Sequestered :: Sequestered (a.) Retired; secluded.
Privacy :: Privacy (n.) The state of being in retirement from the company or observation of others; seclusion.
Secrecy :: Secrecy (n.) Seclusion; privacy; retirement.
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