Word Meaning

Meaning of "retires" and the crossword clue

- Cease to work; go to bed
- Get away
- Give up work
- Go back
- Go to bed
- Stop work
- Withdraw
- Gives up work
- Goes to bed
- Goes to bed Down
- Pensions off
- To withdraw; to take away; -- sometimes used reflexively.
- To withdraw from circulation, or from the market; to take up and pay; as, to retire bonds; to retire a note.
- To cause to retire; specifically, to designate as no longer qualified for active service; to place on the retired list; as, to retire a military or naval officer.
- To go back or return; to draw back or away; to keep aloof; to withdraw or retreat, as from observation; to go into privacy; as, to retire to his home; to retire from the world, or from notice.
- To retreat from action or danger; to withdraw for safety or pleasure; as, to retire from battle.
- To withdraw from a public station, or from business; as, having made a large fortune, he retired.
- To recede; to fall or bend back; as, the shore of the sea retires in bays and gulfs.
- To go to bed; as, he usually retires early.
- The act of retiring, or the state of being retired; also, a place to which one retires.
- A call sounded on a bugle, announcing to skirmishers that they are to retire, or fall back.