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The act of retiring, or the state of being retired.
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A place to which one retires.
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A call sounded on a bugle, announcing to skirmishers that they are to retire, or fall back.
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At the retire, the cavalry fell back.
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To stop working on a permanent basis, usually because of old age or illness.
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Having made a large fortune, he retired.
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(sometimes reflexive) To withdraw; to take away.
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To cease use or production of something.
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The steamship made thousands of trips over several decades before it was retired by the shipping company.
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To withdraw from circulation, or from the market; to take up and pay.
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The central bank retired those notes five years ago.
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To cause to retire; specifically, to designate as no longer qualified for active service; to place on the retired list.
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The board retired the old major.
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(of a batsman) To voluntarily stop batting before being dismissed so that the next batsman can bat.
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Jones retired in favour of Smith.
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(of a fielder) To make a play which results in a runner or the batter being out, either by means of a put out, fly out or strikeout.
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Jones retired Smith 6-3.
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To go back or return; to withdraw or retreat, especially from public view; to go into privacy.
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I will retire to the study.
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To retreat from action or danger; to withdraw for safety or pleasure.
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The regiment retired from the fray after the Major was killed.
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To recede; to fall or bend back.
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Past the point, the shore retires into a sequence of coves.
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To go to bed.
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I will retire for the night.
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To remove or cease to use.
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When a hurricane becomes so deadly or destructive that future use would be insensitive, officials may retire the name of the hurricane.
If I had a buck for every flat I fixed, I could retire...no pun intended.
All to retire! he shouted from a distance.
Half of the senators retire every four years.
They would have had to retire of their own accord, for they had no water for men or horses.
On the 29th of June the near approach of the Prussians (who had orders to seize him, dead or alive), caused him to retire westwards towards Rochefort, whence he hoped to reach the United States.
In the evening, after supper, when all were about to retire, Anatole kissed Princess Mary's hand.
In October he wrote offering to retire to Carolina if he were released.
This he obtained, and was allowed to retire with Theodora into banishment in the little town of Oenoe, on the shores of the Black Sea.
He had for some time lost the real direction of affairs, and in May 1699 he was compelled to retire from office and from the lord-lieutenancy of Yorkshire.
Brigadier-General Yule then took command, and an overwhelming force of Boers rendering the further occupation of Dundee dangerous, he decided to retire his force to Ladysmith.
He simply forced him to retire.
In May he defeated a greatly superior royalist force at Grantham, proceeding afterwards to Nottingham in accordance with Essex's plan of penetrating into Yorkshire to relieve the Fairfaxes; where, however, difficulties, arising from jealousies between the officers, and the treachery of John Hotham, whose arrest Cromwell was instrumental in effecting, obliged him to retire again to the association, leaving the Fairfaxes to be defeated at Adwalton Moor.
On the 23rd, 24th and 25th of July (first battle of Custozza) the Piedmontese were defeated and forced to retire on Milan with Radetzkys superior force in pursuit.
He obtained his release after four months, and again devoted himself to pamphleteering, but had speedily to retire for a time to London.
Having this advantage, he was able to abdicate in favour of Aristobulus and to retire into private life.
But from a strong sense of duty he continued at his post; and ere long the general condemnation of the despatch was so strong that the writer felt it necessary to retire from office.
The river was high, and Wellington hoped that want of supplies would compel Marmont to retire, but in this he was disappointed.
In 1793 it was besieged by the English under Frederick Augustus, duke of York, who was compelled to retire after the defeat of Hondschoote.
When the news of the surrender of Saldanha da Gama reached Gumercindo Saraiva, then at Curitiba in Parana, he proceeded to retire to Rio Grande do Sul.
After several preliminary engagements Sherman on the 26th and 27th of June made repeated unsuccessful attempts to drive the Confederates from their defences at Kenesaw Mountain; he then resorted to a flanking movement which forced the Confederate general to retire (July 2) toward Atlanta.
On receiving this letter, Nicholas did not even make any attempt to get leave of absence or to retire from the army, but wrote to his parents that he was sorry Natasha was ill and her engagement broken off, and that he would do all he could to meet their wishes.
It was impossible not to retreat a day's march, and then in the same way it was impossible not to retreat another and a third day's march, and at last, on the first of September when the army drew near Moscow--despite the strength of the feeling that had arisen in all ranks--the force of circumstances compelled it to retire beyond Moscow.
Sir James Yeo began by blockading Sackett's Harbor in the early part of 1814, but when the American squadron was ready he was compelled to retire by the disparity of the forces.
About the same time, having shown too open sympathy with the revolutionary or reforming tendencies of 1848, he was for; olitical reasons obliged to leave Berlin and retire to the seclusion of Wiirzburg, the medical school of which profited enormously by his labours as professor of pathological anatomy, and secured a wide extension of its reputation.
These sent troops to harry north Israel, and Baasha was compelled to retire.
On the arrival of Timoleon he was compelled to surrender and retire to Corinth (343), where he spent the rest of his days in poverty (Diodorus Siculus xvi.; Plutarch, Timoleon).
Tradition relates that, after some six years' fighting, the Messenians were forced to retire to the fortified summit of Ithome.
The members of the Senate are elected for life by the House of Burgesses; but a senator is free to retire from office at the expiry of six years.
They are elected for a period of six years, but as half of each class retire at the end of three years, new elections for one half the number take place at the end of that time.
She did not live very happily with her new husband, who was warlike and self-willed, and when he was taken prisoner by the Turks (1071) she was compelled to vacate the throne in favour of her son Michael and retire to a convent, where she died.
On the 18th of October the Swedes invested the fortress-monastery of Czenstochowa, but the place was heroically defended; and after a seventy days' siege the besiegers were compelled to retire with great loss.
Montecucculi's skill failed completely to shake his position, and in the end the prince compelled him to retire over the Rhine.
Franklin as a scientist 5 and as an inventor has been decried by experts as an amateur and a dabbler; but it should be remembered that it was always his hope to retire from public life and devote himself to science.
After Luther's death (1546) and the battle of Miihlberg (1547) he had to yield to his rival, Julius von Pflug, and retire to the protection of the young duke of Weimar.
The detachment was quickly forced to retire on its supports at the cross-roads, but here Prince Bernard firmly held his position; and by his skilful use of cover and the high standing corn he prevented the French gauging the weakness of the small force that barred their way.
His admiral Margarito, a naval genius equal to George of Antioch, with 600 vessels kept the eastern Mediterranean open for the Franks, and forced the all-victorious Saladin to retire from before Tripoli in the spring of 1188.
Sturdza himself soon had to retire.
In August he defeated another force sent to Abba Island to arrest him, but thereafter deemed it prudent to retire to Jebel Gedir, in the Nuba country south of Kordofan, where he was soon at the head of a powerful force; and 6000 Egyptian troops under Yusef Pasha, advancing from Fashoda, were nearly annihilated in June 1882.
But the French entered and still Pierre did not retire--an irresistible curiosity kept him there.
McLachlan decided to retire the tour that year.
Have a drink at the bar in this restored historical building, and then retire to the dining room with its stained glass windows and warm woodwork.
On the 3rd of July he defeated the Austrians at Monte Saello, on the 7th at Lodzone, on the 10th at Darso, on the 16th at Condino, on the 19th at Ampola, on the 21st at Bezzecca, but, when on the point of attacking Trent, he was ordered by General Lamarmora to retire.
In the beginning of 1772 his ambition was stimulated by the nomination to the 'second place in council in Bengal with a promise of the reversion of the governorship when Mr Cartier should retire.
The two were associated in the administration and in the simple country occupations of the seaside villa of Lorium, the birthplace of Pius, to which he loved to retire.
Pippin was forced to retire.
Letters patent providing for representative government were issued on the 31st of March 1905.1 For some time he had suffered in health from the incessant strain of work, and he determined to retire.
Wellington fell back before him down the left bank, ordering up Rowland Hill's force from the Badajoz road, the peasantry having been previously called upon to destroy their crops and retire within the lines of Torres Vedras.
He sustained severe injuries in a fall from horseback which permanently affected his brain, and was persuaded by his friends to retire.
Anti-Catholic feeling ran so high that, after the discovery of the Popish Plot, he found it wiser to retire to Brussels (1679), while Shaftesbury and the Whigs planned to exclude him from the succession.
The younger Dionysius had been allowed to retire to Corinth; his island fortress was destroyed and replaced by a court of justice.
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