RETIRE Synonyms

• (military) withdrawal of troops to a more favorable position to escape the enemy's superior forces or after a defeat

• a place of privacy; a place affording peace and quiet

• (military) a signal to begin a withdrawal from a dangerous position

• (military) a bugle call signaling the lowering of the flag at sunset

• an area where you can be alone

• withdrawal for prayer and study and meditation

• the act of withdrawing or going backward (especially to escape something hazardous or unpleasant)

• pull back or move away or backward

• move away, as for privacy

• move back

• make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity

• close at the end of a session

• break from a meeting or gathering

• a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep

• a plot of ground in which plants are growing

• a depression forming the ground under a body of water

• (geology) a stratum of rock (especially sedimentary rock)

• a stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with profit

• single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance

• the flat surface of a printing press on which the type form is laid in the last stage of producing a newspaper or magazine or book etc.

• a foundation of earth or rock supporting a road or railroad track

• furnish with a bed

• place (plants) in a prepared bed of soil

• put to bed

• have sexual intercourse with

• prepare for sleep

• pull back or move away or backward

• retreat

• become faint or more distant

• prepare for sleep

• pull back or move away or backward

• use a surgical instrument to hold open (the edges of a wound or an organ)

• prepare for sleep

• prepare for sleep

• prepare for sleep

• prepare for sleep

• prepare for sleep

• pull back or move away or backward

• pull back or move away or backward

• pull back or move away or backward

• use a surgical instrument to hold open (the edges of a wound or an organ)

• move to a rearward position; pull towards the back

• stretch back a bowstring (on an archer's bow)

• make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity

• to cause inconvenience or discomfort to

• put out considerable effort

• deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion

• thrust or extend out

• put out, as of a candle or a light

• be sexually active

• cause to be out on a fielding play

• retire

• prepare and issue for public distribution or sale

• administer an anesthetic drug to

• prepare for sleep

• remove from a list

• put out or be put out by a strikeout

• be unsuccessful in an endeavor

• make a motion as with one's fist or foot towards an object or away from one's body

• cause to get out

• set out on a course of action

• make an entrance by turning from a road

• to surrender someone or something to another

• carry out (performances)

• prepare for sleep