Synonyms for Retire:

n.
- give/hand in (your) notice
- hand in your notice/resignation
- ground out
- call up
- cut out
- draft in
- flip off
• bow out
- bow
v.
• abdicate
- bagged it
- bagging it
- bags it
- leave high dry
- leave holding bag
- leave lurch
- leave the lurch
- leaved high and dry
- leaved high dry
- leaved holding bag
- leaved holding the bag
- leaves high and dry
- leaves high dry
- leaves holding bag
- leaves holding the bag
- leaving high and dry
- leaving high dry
- leaving holding bag
- leaving holding the bag
- left high and dry
- left high dry
- left holding bag
- left holding the bag
- re tire
- re tired
- re tires
- re tiring
- re-tire
- re-tires
- re-tiring
- sur render
- sur rendered
- sur rendering
- sur renders
- sur-render
- sur-rendered
- sur-rendering
- sur-renders
• back
- drave back
- drives back
- drove back
- re pulse
- re pulsed
- re pulses
- re pulsing
- re tract
- re tracts
- re verse
- re versing
- re-pulse
- re-pulsed
- re-pulses
- re-pulsing
- re-tract
- re-tracts
- re-verse
- re-versed
- re-versing
• bow out
- made exit
- made one exit
- made one's exit
- made ones exit
- make exit
- make one exit
- make ones exit
- makes exit
- makes one exit
- makes one's exit
- makes ones exit
- making exit
- making one exit
- making one's exit
- making ones exit
- walked away from
- walking away from
- walks away from
• clear out
- be-gone
- de camp
- de camped
- de camping
- de camps
- de-camp
- de-camped
- de-camping
- de-camps
- made oneself scarce
- made scarce
- makes oneself scarce
- makes scarce
- making oneself scarce
- making scarce
- removed oneself
- removes oneself
- removing oneself
- take hike
- takes a hike
- takes hike
- taking a hike
- taking hike
- took a hike
- took hike
• decommission
- de activate
- de activated
- de activates
- de activating
- de commission
- de commissioned
- de commissioning
- de commissions
- de militarize
- de militarized
- de militarizes
- de militarizing
- de-activate
- de-activates
- de-commission
- de-commissioned
- de-commissioning
- de-commissions
- de-militarize
- de-militarized
- de-militarizes
- de-militarizing
- demilitarizes
- demilitarizing
- made inactive
- makes inactive
- making inactive
• demobilize
- de mobilize
- de mobilized
- de mobilizes
- de mobilizing
- de-mobilize
- de-mobilized
- de-mobilizes
- de-mobilizing
- dis armed
- dis arming
- dis arms
- dis band
- dis banded
- dis banding
- dis bands
- dis-armed
- dis-arming
- dis-arms
- dis-band
- dis-banded
- dis-banding
- dis-bands
• depart
- cut run
- cuts and run
- cuts run
- cutting and run
- cutting run
- de part
- de parted
- de parting
- de parts
- de sert
- de-part
- de-parted
- de-parting
- de-parts
- de-sert
- gat away
- gitted
- gitting
- goes forth
- going forth
- hit bricks
- hit road
- hit trail
- hits bricks
- hits the bricks
- hits the trail
- hits trail
- hitting bricks
- hitting the bricks
- hitting the trail
- hitting trail
- made a break
- made break
- make break
- makes a break
- makes break
- making a break
- making break
- marched out
- marches out
- marching out
- moved on
- moves on
- moves out
- moving on
- moving out
- re move
- re moved
- re moving
- re-move
- re-moves
- re-moving
- said goodbye
- says goodbye
- sets forth
- slipped away
- slips away
- slipt away
- started out
- starting out
- starts out
- takes leave
- took leave
- went forth
• disappear
- am done for
- am gone
- am lost
- am no more
- am swallowed up
- are done for
- are gone
- are swallowed up
- art gone
- art lost
- art no more
- art swallowed up
- being done for
- being gone
- being lost
- being no more
- being swallowed up
- came naught
- came to naught
- cease exist
- ceased exist
- ceases exist
- ceases to exist
- ceasing exist
- come naught
- comes naught
- comes to naught
- coming naught
- coming to naught
- de materialize
- de materialized
- de materializes
- de materializing
- de-materialize
- de-materialized
- de-materializes
- de-materializing
- dematerializing
- dieing out
- dies out
- dis appear
- dis appeared
- dis appearing
- dis appears
- dis perse
- dis solve
- dis solved
- dis solves
- dis solving
- dis-appear
- dis-appeared
- dis-appearing
- dis-appears
- dis-perse
- dis-solve
- dis-solved
- dis-solves
- dis-solving
- drop out sight
- dropped out of sight
- dropped out sight
- dropping out of sight
- dropping out sight
- drops out of sight
- drops out sight
- dropt out of sight
- dropt out sight
- dying out
- ended gradually
- ending gradually
- ends gradually
- evanished
- evanishes
- evanishing
- ex pire
- ex-pire
- faded away
- goes south
- going south
- is done for
- is gone
- is no more
- is swallowed up
- leaved no trace
- leaves no trace
- left no trace
- melted away
- melting away
- melts away
- takes flight
- was done for
- was gone
- was lost
- was no more
- was swallowed up
- wast done for
- wast gone
- wast lost
- wast no more
- wast swallowed up
- went south
- were done for
- were gone
- were lost
- were no more
- were swallowed up
- wert done for
- wert gone
- wert lost
- wert no more
- wert swallowed up
• dismiss
- Disemployed
- booted out
- boots out
- de frock
- de frocked
- de frocking
- de frocks
- de pone
- de pones
- de pose
- de posed
- de posing
- de select
- de selected
- de selecting
- de selects
- de-frock
- de-frocked
- de-frocking
- de-frocks
- de-pone
- de-pones
- de-pose
- de-posed
- de-posing
- de-select
- de-selected
- de-selecting
- de-selects
- defrocks
- deselected
- deselects
- dis charge
- dis charged
- dis charges
- dis charging
- dis employ
- dis employed
- dis employing
- dis employs
- dis frock
- dis frocked
- dis frocking
- dis frocks
- dis missed
- dis missing
- dis place
- dis placed
- dis places
- dis placing
- dis qualified
- dis qualifies
- dis qualify
- dis qualifying
- dis-charge
- dis-charged
- dis-charges
- dis-charging
- dis-employ
- dis-employed
- dis-employing
- dis-employs
- dis-frock
- dis-frocked
- dis-frocking
- dis-frocks
- dis-missed
- dis-missing
- dis-place
- dis-placed
- dis-places
- dis-placing
- dis-qualified
- dis-qualifies
- dis-qualify
- dis-qualifying
- disemploying
- disemploys
- disfrocked
- disfrocking
- disfrocks
- gave ax
- gave gate
- gave heave ho
- gave heave-ho
- gave heaveho
- gave notice to
- gave the ax
- gave the gate
- gave the heave ho
- gave the heave-ho
- gave the heaveho
- gave walking papers
- gave warning
- give ax
- give gate
- give heave ho
- give heaveho
- give the heaveho
- gives ax
- gives gate
- gives heave ho
- gives heave-ho
- gives heaveho
- gives notice to
- gives the ax
- gives the gate
- gives the heave ho
- gives the heave-ho
- gives the heaveho
- gives walking papers
- gives warning
- giving ax
- giving gate
- giving heave ho
- giving heave-ho
- giving heaveho
- giving notice to
- giving the ax
- giving the gate
- giving the heave ho
- giving the heave-ho
- giving the heaveho
- giving walking papers
- giving warning
- lets out
- letted go
- letted out
- re calling
- re calls
- re-call
- re-called
- re-calling
- re-calls
- un frock
- un frocked
- un frocking
- un frocks
- un seat
- un seated
- un seating
- un seats
- un-frock
- un-frocked
- un-frocking
- un-frocks
- un-seat
- un-seated
- un-seating
- un-seats
- unfrocks
• ebb
- de cay
- de cays
- de crease
- de creased
- de creases
- de creasing
- de generate
- de generated
- de generates
- de generating
- de-cay
- de-cays
- de-crease
- de-creased
- de-creases
- de-creasing
- de-generate
- de-generated
- de-generates
- de-generating
- dieing down
- eased off
- eases off
- fell away
- flowed back
• emotion
- retire
• exit
- bad farewell
- bade farewell
- bids farewell
- did vanishing act
- didst vanishing act
- does vanishing act
- doest vanishing act
- doeth vanishing act
- doing vanishing act
- dost vanishing act
- doth vanishing act
- flaked off
- flakes off
- take one leave
- take ones leave
- takes one leave
- takes one's leave
- takes ones leave
- taking one leave
- taking one's leave
- taking ones leave
- took one leave
- took one's leave
- took ones leave
• fall back
- re coil
- re coiled
- re coiling
- re coils
- re-coil
- re-coiled
- re-coiling
- re-coils
- retro grade
- retro graded
- retro grades
- retro grading
- retro-grade
- retro-graded
- retro-grades
- retro-grading
• get off
- de scend
- de scended
- de scending
- de scends
- de-scend
- de-scended
- de-scending
- de-scends
- dis embark
- dis embarked
- dis embarking
- dis embarks
- dis mount
- dis mounted
- dis mounting
- dis mounts
- dis-embark
- dis-embarked
- dis-embarking
- dis-embarks
- dis-mount
- dis-mounted
- dis-mounting
- dis-mounts
• give
- all owed
- all owing
- all-owed
- all-owing
- bowed to
- bowing to
- bows to
- de vote
- de voted
- de votes
- de voting
- de-vote
- de-voted
- de-votes
- de-voting
- folded up
- folding up
- folds up
- gives way
- re lax
- re-lax
• go
- bugging out
- bugs out
- gat going
- gat lost
- gets going
- gets lost
- getting lost
- got lost
- gotten going
- gotten lost
- lit out
- made a break for it
- made break for it
- made one way
- made one's way
- made ones way
- made way
- make break for it
- make one way
- make ones way
- makes a break for it
- makes break for it
- makes for
- makes one way
- makes one's way
- makes ones way
- makes way
- making a break for it
- making break for it
- making one way
- making one's way
- making ones way
- pushing on
- ran along
- re pair
- re paired
- re pairing
- re pairs
- re-pair
- re-paired
- re-pairing
- re-pairs
- running along
- runs along
- sets off
- skipped out
- skipping out
- skips out
- take powder
- takes a powder
- takes powder
- taking a powder
- taking powder
- took a powder
- took powder
• lie
- am prone
- am recumbent
- am supine
- are prone
- are recumbent
- are supine
- art prone
- art recumbent
- art supine
- being prone
- being recumbent
- being supine
- go bed
- goes bed
- goes to bed
- going bed
- is prone
- is recumbent
- is supine
- lied down
- re cline
- re clines
- re pose
- re posed
- re sting
- re-cline
- re-clines
- re-pose
- re-posed
- re-sting
- stretching out
- was prone
- was recumbent
- was supine
- wast prone
- wast recumbent
- wast supine
- went bed
- were prone
- were recumbent
- were supine
- wert prone
- wert recumbent
- wert supine
• make off
- made away
- makes away
- making away
- ran for it
- running for it
- runs for it
• repose
- relax
- rest
• resign
- accept
- disclaim
Other synonyms:

•

get out

•

fall

•

pull

•

adopt
crash
fire

•

excess
walk

•

can
discharge
push

•

blow
bump
flop
run
split
step

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• back

• back out

bow out

• bow out

• clear out

• deactivate

demobilize

• depart

• disappear

• dismiss

• exit

• fall back

• flinch

Flinched

• give

• go to bed

sack
turn in

• lag

drop back

• leave

• pull out

stop participating

• recede

• resign

• secede

• seclude

• turn in

• withdraw

• Other relevant words (noun):

action

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Equivalence
- Proper noun, singular
  retired, retiring, retires.
Independent
- Proper noun, singular
  withdraw, ORS.
- Verb, base form
  cancel, cease, discontinue, disengage, quit, reimburse, repay, resign, retrieve, revoke, terminate.
Other Related
- Proper noun, singular
  retirement, retirements.
- Verb, base form
  withdraw.

What are the hypernyms for Retire?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

hypernyms for retire (as verbs)
- emotion
  back off, back down, chicken out, bow out, pull out.
- social
  superannuate, withdraw, bow out, drop out.

What are the hyponyms for Retire?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.

hyponyms for retire (as verbs)
- emotion
  jade, fatigue, tire, pall, weary.
- possession
  chuck out, toss, cast away, cast out, dispose, put away, throw out, fling, discard, toss out, toss away, throw away, cast aside.
- social
  fire, discontinue, give the sack, can, lay off, give notice, quit, terminate, stop, dismiss, resign, send away, cease, recall, give up, force out, leave office, step down, displace, sack, give the axe.

What are the opposite words for retire?

The word "retire" refers to withdrawing from work, business or daily routine activities. The antonyms for "retire" include the concepts of "engage," "commence," and "begin." Engage means to provide or participate in an activity, while commence means to start something new. The word "begin" refers to embarking on a new task or undertaking. Other antonyms for "retire" are "take up," "remain active," and "stay involved." These concepts indicate opposite meanings of retirement and promote the idea of continued participation in life activities beyond conventional retirement age. The antonyms of "retire" highlight the importance of staying engaged and active for a healthy state of mind and body in later life.

What are the antonyms for Retire?

adj.
• noun
- down
- mediate
- subject
v.
• leave a place or responsibility
- advance
- approve
- arrive
- begin
- come in
- continue
- enter
- increase
- join
- remain
- stay
• noun
- Reawake
- Rehire
- awake
- beard
- bestir
- brave
- brazen
- confront
- contract
- dare
- defy
- employ
- engage
- face
- hire
- keep
- outbrave
- reawaken
- recruit
- reemploy
- retain
- rouse
- shift
- sign
- stir
- subcontract
- take on
- uprise
v. i.
• noun
- rout
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Usage examples for Retire

Gentlemen of the Jury, is it possible that you can retire from this court room and not consider carefully this point?

"The Eye of Dread"

Payne Erskine

If you prefer to retire to consider your verdict, you may do so.

"The Eye of Dread"

Payne Erskine

I was forced to retire.

"My Attainment of the Pole"

Frederick A. Cook

Famous quotes with Retire

If I were to retire, I would keep my family's interest in the company the same and say, Don't sell.

Sheldon Adelson
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Sheldon Adelson
I will never retire.

Kate Adie
There is a human capital crisis in the federal government. Not only are we losing the decades of talent as civil servants retire, we are not doing enough to develop and nurture the next generation of public servants.

Daniel Akaka
I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.

Lance Armstrong

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v.

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