Retire synonyms
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be put on the shelf
To cease active life
To fall asleep
To withdraw formally from membership in, or association with, a group, organization, etc., esp. a political group
To move back from a position of advancement or become smaller:
To draw away
give up work
To cease active life
leave active service
To cease active life
To cease active life
make vacant
To cease active life
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(Idiomatic) To relinquish control or possession of something to someone.
To place in different groups; sort:
be put out to pasture
To cease active life
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
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get the golden handshake
To cease active life
To invalidate or cause to no longer be in effect, as by voiding or canceling:
To make void; repeal or annul.
To discard or abandon as useless; cancel:
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
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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.
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 leave (a building, road, vehicle, etc.)
(Idiomatic) To go to bed.
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To a degree; rather:
To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark:
To go back; recede.
enter (antonym)
Enter is defined as to come in, put in or get in.
To slip from one's control.
(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 stop or discontinue doing something
To move or go quickly or hurriedly:
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(Intransitive, basketball) A foul committed by pushing against an opponent to both accelerate more quickly and push the opponent in the opposite direction.
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
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(Slang) To find temporary lodging or shelter, as for the night.
To fall or lie down heavily and noisily:
To retire or put out of use due to age
take-leave
call-it-a-night
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hit the hay (or sack)
call-it-quits
hang up one's spurs
turn in one's badge
put-out-to-pasture
beat-a-retreat
give ground (or way)
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approach (related)
To come closer or draw nearer
awareness (related)
To go to bed
continue (related)
To carry on; persist in:
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.
(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 go away; leave; depart
To return to a previous, usually worse or less developed state:
seclude oneself
To draw away
keep aloof
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.
eliminate (related)
To remove from consideration by defeating, as in a contest.
Find another word for retire. In this page you can discover 104 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for retire, like: be put on the shelf, go-to-sleep, secede, pull back, hit-the-road, turn in, leave, retreat, keep apart, rest and give up work.