Definition of "retire"

retire¹

/ɹəˈtaɪə(ɹ)/

verb
third-person singular simple present retires, present participle retiring, simple past and past participle retired
1. (intransitive) To stop working on a permanent basis, usually because of old age or illness.
  Quotations
  Green will never forget "that was the day I retired - the absolute crowning event of my life and I was very proud of that.
  2022 September 21, Chris Green tells Nick Brodrick, “It's absolutely my favourite train”, in RAIL, number 966, page 37
2. (transitive, sometimes reflexive) To withdraw; to take away.
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  He […] retired himself, his wife, and children into a forest.
  a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the page number)”, in Fulke Greville, Matthew Gwinne, and John Florio, editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590; republished in Albert Feuillerat, editor, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia (Cambridge English Classics: The Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney; I), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1912,
  As when the sun is present all the year, / And never doth retire his golden ray.
  1592, John Davies, The Original, Nature, and Immortality of the Soul
3. (transitive) To cease use or production of something.
  Quotations
  Only now, due to the COVID-19-associated drop in traffic, are they being retired with 12 of the 30 trains moved to Landore (Swansea) for warm storage.
  2020 May 20, John Crosse, “Soon to be gone... but never forgotten”, in Rail, page 63
4. (transitive) To withdraw from circulation, or from the market; to take up and pay.
5. (transitive) To cause to retire; specifically, to designate as no longer qualified for active service; to place on the retired list.
  Quotations
  How had it felt, at 28, to be the hottest young actor in town? He [Richard Gere] grinned. “It was great having the attention,” he said. “I thought: ‘This is it! I’ve done it! I’m going to retire my father. I’m putting money away for college for my sisters,’ the whole thing. It’s incredibly euphorious. All of a sudden the rehearsal period of your life is over, and your future has arrived. It’s liberating.”
  1988 November 27, “How Richard Gere Learned To Reach Out”, in Parade (The Spokesman-Review), page 10, column 3
  By the time I first spoke to Magana in late 2022, 25/7 Media’s success had given him some measure of financial security. “The truth is that I just retired my parents,” he told me two days after Christmas.
  2023 October 19, Brendan I. Koerner, “Watch This Guy Work, and You’ll Finally Understand the TikTok Era”, in Wired‎
6. (intransitive, cricket, of a batsman) To voluntarily stop batting before being dismissed so that the next batsman can bat.
7. (transitive, baseball, of a fielder) To make a play which results in a runner or the batter being out, either by means of a put out, fly out or strikeout. Also, when such an event ends a team's turn at bat.
8. (intransitive) To go back or return; to withdraw or retreat, especially from public view; to go into privacy.
9. (intransitive) To retreat from action or danger; to withdraw for safety or pleasure.
10. (intransitive) To recede; to fall or bend back.
11. (intransitive) To go to bed.
  Quotations
  In the daytime the beds are made up but completely out of sight, giving the passenger a comfortable little private room; as the time for retiring comes, after preparing for rest in the same spacious conditions, he is able, practically at a touch, to pull the bed into position ready for use.
  1944 November and December, “"Duplex Roomette" Sleeping Cars”, in Railway Magazine, page 324
noun
plural retires
1. (rare) The act of retiring, or the state of being retired.
2. A place to which one retires.
3. (dated) A call sounded on a bugle, announcing to skirmishers that they are to retire, or fall back.

retire²

/ɹiˈtaɪɚ/

verb
third-person singular simple present retires, present participle retiring, simple past and past participle retired
1. (transitive, American spelling) To fit (a vehicle) with new tires.

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