Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to retire
Participle: retired
Gerund: retiring
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | retire |
| you | retire |
| he;she;it | retires |
| we | retire |
| you | retire |
| they | retire |
Perfect
| I | have retired |
| you | have retired |
| he;she;it | has retired |
| we | have retired |
| you | have retired |
| they | have retired |
Past
| I | retired |
| you | retired |
| he;she;it | retired |
| we | retired |
| you | retired |
| they | retired |
Pluperfect
| I | had retired |
| you | had retired |
| he;she;it | had retired |
| we | had retired |
| you | had retired |
| they | had retired |
Future
| I | will retire |
| you | will retire |
| he;she;it | will retire |
| we | will retire |
| you | will retire |
| they | will retire |
Future Perfect
| I | will have retired |
| you | will have retired |
| he;she;it | will have retired |
| we | will have retired |
| you | will have retired |
| they | will have retired |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | retire |
| you | retire |
| he;she;it | retire |
| we | retire |
| you | retire |
| they | retire |
Perfect
| I | have retired |
| you | have retired |
| he;she;it | have retired |
| we | have retired |
| you | have retired |
| they | have retired |
Imperfect
| I | retired |
| you | retired |
| he;she;it | retired |
| we | retired |
| you | retired |
| they | retired |
Pluperfect
| I | had retired |
| you | had retired |
| he;she;it | had retired |
| we | had retired |
| you | had retired |
| they | had retired |
Conditional
Present
| I | would retire |
| you | would retire |
| he;she;it | would retire |
| we | would retire |
| you | would retire |
| they | would retire |
Perfect
| I | would have retired |
| you | would have retired |
| he;she;it | would have retired |
| we | would have retired |
| you | would have retired |
| they | would have retired |
Imperative
| you | retire |
| we | Let's retire |
| you | retire |
Verbs conjugated like 'retire'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'retire'
refire,
rehire,
retie,
retile,
retime,
retyre,
rewire,
attire,
bemire,
betide,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to withdraw from a position
- back away, back down, balk, beat a retreat, bug out, crawfish, decline, draw back, fall back, pull out, recede, regrade, retreat, retrograde, revert, shrink, sound a retreat, turn tail, withdraw
- withdraw
- resign, depart, leave, retreat, abdicate, regress, recede, rescind
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1533, of armies, "to retreat," from M.Fr.
retirer "to withdraw (something)," from
re- "back" + O.Fr.
tirer "to draw" (see tirade). Meaning "to withdraw to some place for the sake of seclusion" is recorded from 1538; sense of "leave an occupation" first attested 1648 (implied in
retirement). Meaning "to leave company and go to bed" is from 1670. Baseball sense of "to put out" is recorded from 1874.
Retiree is attested from 1945.
2. From Middle French retirer (“draw back”), from Old French retirer, built from re- (“back”) + tirer (“draw, pull”), the latter from Vulgar Latin *tīrāre, of highly uncertain origin. See: Middle French '
retirer'.
Verbs referencing "retire"
Spanish
retirar.
Sample Sentences
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[...] the door. The tea-table, too, was by no means as well attended as the dinner-table; and there was less whist-playing than might have been expected. Still, with the exception of one lady, who had retired with some precipitation at dinner-time, immediately after being assisted to the finest cut of a very yellow boiled leg of mutton with very green capers, there were no invalids as yet; and walking, [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] her eyes, and, as if some one had struck her a deadly blow, she turned pale and gasped for breath. She looked nervously out on the verandah, where the boy, tired of the grave conversation, had retired, and where he was riding triumphantly up and down on Mr. Shelby's walking-stick. She would have spoken to tell her husband her fears, but checked herself.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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CHAPTER V Showing the Feelings of Living Property on Changing Owners Mr. and Mrs. Shelby had retired to their apartment for the night. He was lounging in a large easy-chair, looking over some letters that had come in the afternoon mail, and she was standing before her mirror, brushing out the [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] could not be made available for any such fanciful purposes; he was exhorted to abstain from intoxicating drinks, as he surely might if he would; and received other very good advice, with which he retired, exceedingly dissatisfied with the result of his application.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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The politeness of the person in authority had secured to me a shelf in a nook near this red curtain, in some degree removed from the great body of sleepers: to which place I retired, with many acknowledgments to him for his attention. I found it, on after-measurement, just the width of an ordinary sheet of Bath post letter-paper; and I was at first in some uncertainty as to [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] to the street; wherein two or three figures (I presume the magistrate and his myrmidons ) were basking in the sunshine, the very effigies of languor and repose. It was a perfect picture of justice retired from business for want of customers; her sword and scales sold off; napping comfortably with her legs upon the table.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] juniper-berries that get ripe in our garden by the lake brought in for that special purpose, ” said St. Clare, gravely pulling the bell as he did so; “ meanwhile, cousin, you must be wanting to retire to your apartment, and refresh yourself a little, after your journey. Dolph, ” he added, “ tell Mammy to come here. ” The decent mulatto woman whom Eva had caressed so rapturously soon entered; she [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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The pilot had not been slow to take advantage of this favourable weather, and the ship which yesterday had been in such a crowded dock that she might have retired from trade for good and all, for any chance she seemed to have of going to sea, was now full sixteen miles away. A gallant sight she was, when we, fast gaining on her in a steamboat, saw her in the [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] self than ever she had done since her sickness; and when he kissed her for the night, he said to Miss Ophelia,—“Cousin, we may keep her with us, after all; she is certainly better; ” and he had retired with a lighter heart in his bosom than he had had there for weeks.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)