retiring (verb)

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• retire — [c]/rəˈtaɪə / (say ruh tuyuh) verb (retired, retiring) –verb (i) 1. to withdraw, or go away or apart, to a place of abode, shelter, or seclusion. 2. to go to bed. 3. to withdraw from office, business, or active life: to retire at the age of sixty …  

• sell up — verb get rid of all one s merchandise • Syn: ↑sell out, ↑liquidize • Topics: ↑commerce, ↑commercialism, ↑mercantilism • Hypernyms: ↑discard, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• stay on — verb continue in a place, position, or situation (Freq. 5) After graduation, she stayed on in Cambridge as a student adviser Stay with me, please despite student protests, he remained Dean for another year She continued as deputy mayor for… …   Useful english dictionary

• retire — verb (retired; retiring) Etymology: Middle French retirer, from re + tirer to draw Date: 1533 intransitive verb 1. to withdraw from action or danger ; retreat 2. to withdraw especially for privacy < retired to her room > …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• roll in the aisles — verb To laugh uproariously. Theatregoers may not roll in the aisles when lanky Ray Bolger impersonates a window dresser retiring for the night. . . . But plenty of people will be amused by Cartoonist Robert Wildhack. Syn: die laughing, laugh ones …   Wiktionary

• retire — verb 1 FROM WORK a) (I) to stop work at the end of your working life: He retired when he was 65. (+ from): After retiring from the army it took William a long time to adjust to civilian life. | retire early (=retire before the usual age) b)… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• shy — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. bashful, reserved, retiring, demure; cautious, suspicious, wary; timid, skittish, fearful; short, lacking. See modesty, fear, incompleteness. Ant., forward, brash, incautious. v. start, recoil. See… …   English dictionary for students

• retire — [[t]rɪta͟ɪ͟ə(r)[/t]] ♦♦♦ retires, retiring, retired 1) VERB When older people retire, they leave their job and usually stop working completely. At the age when most people retire, he is ready to face a new career... Although their careers are… …   English dictionary

• Huron Indians — • If language may be taken as a fair criterion to go by, the Hurons proper were the original stock from which sprang all the branches of the great Iroquoian family, whether included in the primitive federation of the Five Nations, or standing… …   Catholic encyclopedia

• get — /get/ verb past tense got, past participle got especially BrE gotten especially AmE present participle getting RECEIVE/OBTAIN 1 RECEIVE (transitive not in passive) to be given or receive something: Sharon always seems to get loads of mail. | Why… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• appeal — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 attraction/interest ADJECTIVE ▪ considerable, great, growing, obvious, powerful, special, strong ▪ immediate, i …   Collocations dictionary