retire
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- (intransitive) If you retire, you stop working, usually because of your age.
- She recently retired after 25 years with the company.
- With me is Colonel David Hunt, military analyst and retired U.S. Army commander.
- Horner retired at age 63 and has been painting full time ever since.
- (transitive) If you retire something, you stop using it.
- NASA will soon be retiring the space shuttles.
- (intransitive) If you retire, you go to a quiet place, often to bed.
- After dinner she retired to her bedroom with a head cold.