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UK [rɪˈtaɪə(r)] / US [rɪˈtaɪr] verb
Word forms "retire":
present tense I/you/we/they retire he/she/it retires present participle retiring past tense retired past participle retired
1) [intransitive] to stop working, especially when you reach the age when you are officially too old to work
retire from:

He retired from the army last month.

retire as:

Mr Garroway retired as chairman of the historical society in May.

a) [intransitive] to stop playing a sport as a professional player because you are too old
b) [transitive] to force someone to leave their job, especially before they reach the age when they are officially too old to work
2) [intransitive] formal to leave a place, position, or way of life in order to go somewhere quieter or to live a less active life

The committee will now retire in order to discuss these issues.

retire from:

At the age of 83, she finally retired from public life.

retire to:

In the evenings, Lloyd retired to his study to write.

3) [intransitive/transitive] to stop taking part in a game or sports competition because you are injured or ill, or to make someone do this

He retired hurt with a bloody nose.

4) [transitive] to remove machines or equipment from a place because they are old and no longer useful

My printer was three years old, so I retired it.

5) [intransitive] mainly literary to go to bed at the end of the day in order to sleep
6) [transitive] American in baseball, to end a batter's or team's turn at batting by getting the batter out

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