- retired - no longer active in your work or profession
Antonym: active (indirect, via inactive)
- emeritus, retired - honorably retired from assigned duties and retaining your title along with the additional title `emeritus' as in `professor emeritus'; `retired from assigned duties' need not imply that one is inactive
Antonyms: young, immature (indirect, via old)
- out, retired - not allowed to continue to bat or run; "he was tagged out at second on a close play"; "he fanned out"
- retired, out of service - (of a ship) withdrawn from active service; "the ship was placed out of service after the war"
Antonym: in commission (indirect, via out of commission)
- retired, superannuated - discharged as too old for use or work; especially with a pension; "a superannuated civil servant"
Antonyms: young, immature (indirect, via old)
- retire - go into retirement; stop performing one's work or withdraw from one's position; "He retired at age 68"
--1 is one way to leave office, quit, step down, resign
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- retire, withdraw - withdraw from active participation; "He retired from chess"
--2 is one way to discontinue, stop, cease, give up, quit, lay off
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun retirement2, noun retiree1
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- withdraw, retreat, pull away, draw back, recede, pull back, retire, move back - pull back or move away or backward; "The enemy withdrew"; "The limo pulled away from the curb"
--3 is one way to travel, go, move, locomote
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- recede, fall back, retire - move back and away from; "The enemy fell back"
--4 is one way to withdraw, retreat, pull away, draw back, recede, pull back, retire, move back
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- retire - withdraw from circulation or from the market, as of bills, shares, and bonds
--5 is one way to recall
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- adjourn, withdraw, retire - break from a meeting or gathering; "We adjourned for lunch"; "The men retired to the library"
--6 is one way to close, fold, shut down, close down
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- retire - make (someone) retire; "The director was retired after the scandal"
--7 is one way to fire, give notice, can, dismiss, give the axe, send away, sack, force out, give the sack, terminate
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- retire, pension off - dispose of; as of old clothes; "She finally retired that old coat"
--8 is one way to discard, fling, toss, toss out, toss away, chuck out, cast aside, dispose, throw out, cast out, throw away, cast away, put away
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- retire, withdraw - lose interest; "he retired from life when his wife died"
--9 is one way to tire, pall, weary, fatigue, jade
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- put out, retire - cause to be out on a fielding play
--10 is one way to toy, fiddle, diddle, play
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- retire, strike out - cause to retire; "The pitcher retired three batters"; "the runner was put out at third base"
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- go to bed, turn in, bed, crawl in, kip down, hit the hay, hit the sack, sack out, go to sleep, retire - go to bed in order to sleep; "I usually turn in at midnight"; "He turns out at the crack of dawn"
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- adjourn, withdraw, retire - break from a meeting or gathering; "We adjourned for lunch"; "The men retired to the library"