Word Meanings - RETIRE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Etym: 1. To withdraw; to take away; -- sometimes used reflexively. He . . . retired himself, his wife, and children into a forest. Sir P. Sidney. As when the sun is present all the year, And never doth retire his golden ray. Sir J. Davies. 2. To

Additional info about word: RETIRE

Etym: 1. To withdraw; to take away; -- sometimes used reflexively. He . . . retired himself, his wife, and children into a forest. Sir P. Sidney. As when the sun is present all the year, And never doth retire his golden ray. Sir J. Davies. 2. To withdraw from circulation, or from the market; to take up and pay; as, to retire bonds; to retire a note. 3. 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RETIRE)

• Abandon
• Leave
• forsake
• desert
• renounce
• cease
• relinquish
• discontinue
• castoff
• resign
• retire
• quit
• forego
• forswear
• depart from
• vacate
• surrender
• abjure
• repudiate
• Ebb
• Retire
• recede
• decrease
• sick
• decline
• decay
• wane
• Recede
• withdraw
• retreat
• retrograde
• return
• ebb
• Resort Repair
• fly
• Secede
• Withdraw
• separate
• dissent
• segregate

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of RETIRE)

• Rise
• grow
• increase
• flourish
• luxuriate
• vegetate
• expand
• enlarge
• Increase
• amplify
• augment
• extend

Related words: (words related to RETIRE)

• RESIGNATION
  1. The act of resigning or giving up, as a claim, possession, office, or the like; surrender; as, the resignation of a crown or comission. 2. The state of being resigned or submissive; quiet or patient submission; unresisting acquiescence; as,
• DESERTER
  One who forsakes a duty, a cause or a party, a friend, or any one to whom he owes service; especially, a soldier or a seaman who abandons the service without leave; one guilty of desertion.
• LEAVE-TAKING
  Taking of leave; parting compliments. Shak.
• VACATE
  Etym: 1. To make vacant; to leave empty; to cease from filling or occupying; as, it was resolved by Parliament that James had vacated the throne of England; the tenant vacated the house. 2. To annul; to make void; to deprive of force; to make of
• FORSAKE
  1. To quit or leave entirely; to desert; to abandon; to depart or withdraw from; to leave; as, false friends and flatterers forsake us in adversity. If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments. Ps. lxxxix. 30. 2. To renounce; to
• FORSWEARER
  One who rejects of renounces upon oath; one who swears a false oath.
• LEAVED
  Bearing, or having, a leaf or leaves; having folds; -- used in combination; as, a four-leaved clover; a two-leaved gate; long- leaved.
• FORSAKER
  One who forsakes or deserts.
• EXPAND
  To become widely opened, spread apart, dilated, distended, or enlarged; as, flowers expand in the spring; metals expand by heat; the heart expands with joy. Dryden.
• ENLARGEMENT
  1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
• RETREATFUL
  Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman.
• DEPARTURE
  The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another. Bouvier. (more info) 1. Division; separation; putting away. No other remedy . . . but absolute departure. Milton.
• RESORT
  1. The act of going to, or making application; a betaking one's self; the act of visiting or seeking; recourse; as, a place of popular resort; -- often figuratively; as, to have resort to force. Join with me to forbid him her resort. Shak. 2. A
• DEPARTMENT
  1. Act of departing; departure. Sudden departments from one extreme to another. Wotton. 2. A part, portion, or subdivision. 3. A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province. Superior to Pope in Pope's
• RETURNLESS
  Admitting no return. Chapman.
• EXTENDLESSNESS
  Unlimited extension. An . . . extendlessness of excursions. Sir. M. Hale.
• RESIGNED
  Submissive; yielding; not disposed to resist or murmur. A firm, yet cautious mind; Sincere, thought prudent; constant, yet resigned. Pope.
• RETREATMENT
  The act of retreating; specifically, the Hegira. D'Urfey.
• DEPARTMENTAL
  Pertaining to a department or division. Burke.
• DECREASE
  1. A becoming less; gradual diminution; decay; as, a decrease of revenue or of strength. 2. The wane of the moon. Bacon.
• INDESERT
  Ill desert. Addison.
• BELEAVE
  To leave or to be left. May.
• REINCREASE
  To increase again.
• DECAY
  To pass gradually from a sound, prosperous, or perfect state, to one of imperfection, adversity, or dissolution; to waste away; to decline; to fail; to become weak, corrupt, or disintegrated; to rot; to perish; as, a tree decays; fortunes decay;
• INSEPARATE
  Not separate; together; united. Shak.
• MISDESERT
  Ill desert. Spenser.
• DISCONTINUE
  To interrupt the continuance of; to intermit, as a practice or habit; to put an end to; to cause to cease; to cease using, to stop; to leave off. Set up their conventicles again, which had been discontinued. Bp. Burnet. I have discontinued school
• PRECEDENTLY
  Beforehand; antecedently.
• CLEAVER
  One who cleaves, or that which cleaves; especially, a butcher's instrument for cutting animal bodies into joints or pieces.