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Retire

/ɹəˈtaɪə(ɹ)/

The act of retiring, or the state of being retired.

📖 Definitions of "Retire"

noun

1
The act of retiring, or the state of being retired.
2
A place to which one retires.
3
A call sounded on a bugle, announcing to skirmishers that they are to retire, or fall back.
"At the retire, the cavalry fell back."

verb

1
To stop working on a permanent basis, usually because of old age or illness.
"Having made a large fortune, he retired."
2
(sometimes reflexive) To withdraw; to take away.
3
To cease use or production of something.
"The steamship made thousands of trips over several decades before it was retired by the shipping company."
4
To withdraw from circulation, or from the market; to take up and pay.
"The central bank retired those notes five years ago."

20 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.

Word	Definition
withdrawverb	(transitive) To draw or pull (something) away or back from its original position or situation.
retreatnoun	The act of pulling back or withdrawing, as from something dangerous, or unpleasant.
recedeverb	To move back; to retreat; to withdraw.
put outverb	Taking offense; indignant.
adjournverb	(intransitive) To end or suspend an event.
turn inverb	(transitive, idiomatic) To submit something; to give.
pull backverb	To retreat.
pull awayverb	(transitive) To move oneself further from a target, either literally or figuratively
draw backverb	to withdraw from an undertaking
fall backverb	To retreat.
hit the hayverb	(slang) To go to bed.
sack outverb	(slang) To fall asleep, usually from implied exhaustion.
kip downverb	(UK, slang) To sleep somewhere other than home, forced to do so by circumstances.
hit the sackverb	(slang) To go to bed.
go to bedverb	To lie down to sleep, put oneself in one's bed.
move backverb	(transitive, US) To reschedule (something) to a later date or time.
crawl inverb	go to bed in order to sleep
go to sleepverb	To fall asleep.
pension offverb	(transitive) To end a contract and give a pension to.
get into bed	—

Words with the opposite meaning.

Word	Definition
advancenoun	To help the progress of (something); to further.
risenoun	(intransitive) To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.
ariseverb	(intransitive) To come up from one's bed or place of repose; to get up.
pass onverb	(transitive) To convey or communicate.
get upverb	To rise from one's bed, usually upon waking up in order to begin one's day.
turn outverb	(intransitive, idiomatic, copulative) To end up; to result.
move onverb	(idiomatic, intransitive) To continue; to proceed; to go on.
march onverb	To continue or keep on.
go onverb	(intransitive) To continue an action.
progressnoun	Movement or advancement through a series of events, or points in time; development through time.

Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.

Word	Definition
withdrawverb	(transitive) To draw or pull (something) away or back from its original position or situation.
adjournverb	(intransitive) To end or suspend an event.
retreatverb	The act of pulling back or withdrawing, as from something dangerous, or unpleasant.
recedeverb	To move back; to retreat; to withdraw.
draw backverb	to withdraw from an undertaking
pull awayverb	(transitive) To move oneself further from a target, either literally or figuratively
turn inverb	(transitive, idiomatic) To submit something; to give.
fall backverb	To retreat.
move backverb	(transitive, US) To reschedule (something) to a later date or time.
pull backverb	To retreat.
kip downverb	(UK, slang) To sleep somewhere other than home, forced to do so by circumstances.
hit the hayverb	(slang) To go to bed.
go to bedverb	To lie down to sleep, put oneself in one's bed.
hit the sackverb	(slang) To go to bed.
sack outverb	(slang) To fall asleep, usually from implied exhaustion.
go to sleepverb	To fall asleep.
put outverb	(transitive) To blind (eyes).
crawl inverb	go to bed in order to sleep
pension offverb	(transitive) To end a contract and give a pension to.
retirementnoun	The state of having permanently left one's employment, now especially at reaching pensionable age; the portion of one's life after retiring from one's career.