Retire synonyms and antonyms
rĭ-tīr'
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To cease active life
To withdraw formally from membership in, or association with, a group, organization, etc., esp. a political group
give up work
To cease active life
leave active service
To cease active life
be put on the shelf
To cease active life
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To move back from a position of advancement or become smaller:
make vacant
To cease active life
To invalidate or cause to no longer be in effect, as by voiding or canceling:
resign (related)
To resign is to give up power, to voluntarily quit a job or come to terms with something as unavoidable.
withdraw (related)
To cause to leave or return:
To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark:
To stop or discontinue doing something
To fall asleep
To draw away
be put out to pasture
To cease active life
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join (antonym)
To participate or take part with
accompany (antonym)
To exist or occur at the same time as:
take part in (antonym)
To draw away
lie (related)
To abide; to remain for a longer or shorter time; to be in a certain state or condition.
sleep (related)
Sleep is defined as to slumber, rest or be in a state of inactivity like sleep.
To leave (a building, road, vehicle, etc.)
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(Idiomatic) To go to bed.
To a degree; rather:
To go back; recede.
enter (antonym)
Enter is defined as to come in, put in or get in.
To slip from one's control.
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(Intransitive) To complete a shift or a day's work.
(Informal) To urinate or defecate:
(Literally) To use coitus interruptus as a method of birth control.
To move or go quickly or hurriedly:
(Intransitive, basketball) A foul committed by pushing against an opponent to both accelerate more quickly and push the opponent in the opposite direction.
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To blow is to expel air in a more forceful manner or air movement.
To affect with force in a way that suggests tearing apart:
To go to bed; rest; sleep
(Slang) To find temporary lodging or shelter, as for the night.
To fall or lie down heavily and noisily:
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To retire or put out of use due to age
take-leave
call-it-a-night
hit the hay (or sack)
call-it-quits
hang up one's spurs
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turn in one's badge
put-out-to-pasture
beat-a-retreat
give ground (or way)
approach (related)
To come closer or draw nearer
awareness (related)
To go to bed
continue (related)
To carry on; persist in:
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keep (related)
To remain in a state or condition; stay:
forward (related)
Forward is defined as toward the front, or toward something in advance.
prepare for sleep
prepare for sleep
(Idiomatic) To go to bed.
(Idiomatic) To fall asleep, usually from implied exhaustion.
To draw a line through some text such as a printed or written sentence, with the purpose of deleting that text from the rest of the document. The text so deleted may be completely obscured, or it may be deliberately left legible with the line through it so that readers can see that it was deliberately deleted.
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(Idiomatic) To move ahead.
pull back or move away or backward
The definition of adjourn means to end something either temporarily or permanently or to postpone it to another time or place.
get up (antonym)
turn out (antonym)
(Idiomatic) To extinguish a light or other device
stand-down (related)
rejoin (related)
re-join (related)
passed-away (related)
die (related)
taking over (related)
emigrate (related)
oust (related)
To place in different groups; sort:
keep aloof
To draw away
(Idiomatic) To relinquish control or possession of something to someone.
To go away; leave; depart
To return to a previous, usually worse or less developed state:
seclude oneself
To draw away
shut oneself up
To draw away
deny-oneself
To decline the gratification of appetites or desires; to practise self-denial.
To go to or live in the country.
reach retirement age
To cease active life
be pensioned off
To cease active life
lead a quiet life
To cease active life
sequester oneself
To cease active life
get the golden handshake
To cease active life
To make void; repeal or annul.
To discard or abandon as useless; cancel:
eliminate (related)
To remove from consideration by defeating, as in a contest.
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