| retire | | |
| v. (social) | 1. retire | go into retirement; stop performing one's work or withdraw from one's position.; "He retired at age 68" |
| ~ superannuate | retire or become ineligible because of old age or infirmity. |
| ~ bow out, withdraw | retire gracefully.; "He bowed out when he realized he could no longer handle the demands of the chairmanship" |
| ~ leave office, step down, quit, resign | give up or retire from a position.; "The Secretary of the Navy will leave office next month"; "The chairman resigned over the financial scandal" |
| v. (social) | 2. retire, withdraw | withdraw from active participation.; "He retired from chess" |
| ~ retire, withdraw | lose interest.; "he retired from life when his wife died" |
| ~ bow out, withdraw | retire gracefully.; "He bowed out when he realized he could no longer handle the demands of the chairmanship" |
| ~ drop out | withdraw from established society, especially because of disillusion with conventional values.; "She hasn't heard from her brother in years--he dropped out after moving to California" |
| ~ cease, discontinue, lay off, quit, stop, give up | put an end to a state or an activity.; "Quit teasing your little brother" |
| v. (motion) | 3. draw back, move back, pull away, pull back, recede, retire, retreat, withdraw | pull back or move away or backward.; "The enemy withdrew"; "The limo pulled away from the curb" |
| ~ back away, crawfish, crawfish out, pull in one's horns, back out, retreat, pull back, withdraw | make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity.; "We'll have to crawfish out from meeting with him"; "He backed out of his earlier promise"; "The aggressive investment company pulled in its horns" |
| ~ go, locomote, move, travel | change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically.; "How fast does your new car go?"; "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell"; "news travelled fast" |
| ~ fall back | move back and away from.; "The enemy fell back" |
| ~ retreat, retrograde | move back.; "The glacier retrogrades" |
| ~ back down, back off, back up | move backwards from a certain position.; "The bully had to back down" |
| v. (social) | 4. retire | withdraw from circulation or from the market, as of bills, shares, and bonds. |
| ~ recall | make unavailable; bar from sale or distribution.; "The company recalled the product when it was found to be faulty" |
| v. (social) | 5. adjourn, retire, withdraw | break from a meeting or gathering.; "We adjourned for lunch"; "The men retired to the library" |
| ~ seclude, sequestrate, sequester, withdraw | keep away from others.; "He sequestered himself in his study to write a book" |
| ~ close down, close up, shut down, close, fold | cease to operate or cause to cease operating.; "The owners decided to move and to close the factory"; "My business closes every night at 8 P.M."; "close up the shop" |
| ~ prorogue | adjourn by royal prerogative; without dissolving the legislative body. |
| ~ foregather, forgather, assemble, gather, meet | collect in one place.; "We assembled in the church basement"; "Let's gather in the dining room" |
| v. (social) | 6. retire | make (someone) retire.; "The director was retired after the scandal" |
| ~ retire | go into retirement; stop performing one's work or withdraw from one's position.; "He retired at age 68" |
| ~ superannuate | retire and pension (someone) because of age or physical inability. |
| ~ give notice, give the axe, give the sack, can, force out, sack, send away, displace, dismiss, fire, terminate | terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position.; "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers" |
| v. (possession) | 7. retire | dispose of (something no longer useful or needed).; "She finally retired that old coat" |
| ~ cast aside, cast away, chuck out, discard, throw away, toss away, toss out, cast out, dispose, put away, throw out, fling, toss | throw or cast away.; "Put away your worries" |
| v. (emotion) | 8. retire, withdraw | lose interest.; "he retired from life when his wife died" |
| ~ fatigue, jade, tire, weary, pall | lose interest or become bored with something or somebody.; "I'm so tired of your mother and her complaints about my food" |
| ~ retire, withdraw | withdraw from active participation.; "He retired from chess" |
| ~ bow out, chicken out, back down, back off, pull out | remove oneself from an obligation.; "He bowed out when he heard how much work was involved" |
| v. (contact) | 9. put out, retire | cause to be out on a fielding play. |
| ~ baseball, baseball game | a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs.; "he played baseball in high school"; "there was a baseball game on every empty lot"; "there was a desire for National League ball in the area"; "play ball!" |
| ~ diddle, toy, fiddle, play | manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination.; "She played nervously with her wedding ring"; "Don't fiddle with the screws"; "He played with the idea of running for the Senate" |
| v. (competition) | 10. retire, strike out | cause to get out.; "The pitcher retired three batters"; "the runner was put out at third base" |
| ~ baseball, baseball game | a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs.; "he played baseball in high school"; "there was a baseball game on every empty lot"; "there was a desire for National League ball in the area"; "play ball!" |
| ~ ease up, give way, move over, yield, give | move in order to make room for someone for something.; "The park gave way to a supermarket"; "`Move over,' he told the crowd" |
| v. (body) | 11. bed, crawl in, go to bed, go to sleep, hit the hay, hit the sack, kip down, retire, sack out, turn in | prepare for sleep.; "I usually turn in at midnight"; "He goes to bed at the crack of dawn" |
| ~ bed down, bunk down | go to bed.; "We bedded down at midnight" |
| segregate | | |
| n. (person) | 1. segregate | someone who is or has been segregated. |
| ~ individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul | a human being.; "there was too much for one person to do" |
| v. (social) | 2. segregate | separate by race or religion; practice a policy of racial segregation.; "This neighborhood is segregated"; "We don't segregate in this county" |
| ~ discriminate, single out, separate | treat differently on the basis of sex or race. |
| v. (contact) | 3. segregate | divide from the main body or mass and collect.; "Many towns segregated into new counties"; "Experiments show clearly that genes segregate" |
| ~ divide, part, separate | come apart.; "The two pieces that we had glued separated" |
| v. (change) | 4. segregate | separate or isolate (one thing) from another and place in a group apart from others.; "the sun segregates the carbon"; "large mining claims are segregated into smaller claims" |
| ~ isolate, insulate | place or set apart.; "They isolated the political prisoners from the other inmates" |
| remote | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. remote, remote control | a device that can be used to control a machine or apparatus from a distance.; "he lost the remote for his TV" |
| ~ device | an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose.; "the device is small enough to wear on your wrist"; "a device intended to conserve water" |
| ~ remote-control bomb | a bomb that can be detonated by remote control. |
| adj. | 2. distant, remote | located far away spatially.; "distant lands"; "remote stars" |
| ~ far | located at a great distance in time or space or degree.; "we come from a far country"; "far corners of the earth"; "the far future"; "a far journey"; "the far side of the road"; "far from the truth"; "far in the future" |
| adj. | 3. outside, remote | very unlikely.; "an outside chance"; "a remote possibility"; "a remote contingency" |
| ~ unlikely | has little chance of being the case or coming about.; "an unlikely story"; "an unlikely candidate for reelection"; "a butcher is unlikely to preach vegetarianism" |
| adj. | 4. distant, remote, removed | separate or apart in time.; "distant events"; "the remote past or future" |
| ~ far | located at a great distance in time or space or degree.; "we come from a far country"; "far corners of the earth"; "the far future"; "a far journey"; "the far side of the road"; "far from the truth"; "far in the future" |
| adj. | 5. outback, remote | inaccessible and sparsely populated. |
| ~ inaccessible, unaccessible | capable of being reached only with great difficulty or not at all. |
| adj. | 6. distant, remote | far apart in relevance or relationship or kinship.; "a distant cousin"; "a remote relative"; "a distant likeness"; "considerations entirely removed (or remote) from politics" |
| ~ faraway | far removed mentally.; "a faraway (or distant) look in her eyes" |
| ~ loosely knit | having only distant social or legal ties.; "a loosely knit group" |
| ~ removed | separated in relationship by a given degree of descent.; "a cousin once removed" |
| ~ ulterior | beyond or outside an area of immediate interest; remote.; "a suggestion ulterior to the present discussion"; "without...any purpose, immediate or ulterior" |
| outskirt | | |
| n. (location) | 1. fringe, outskirt | a part of the city far removed from the center.; "they built a factory on the outskirts of the city" |
| ~ city district | a district of a town or city. |
| ~ suburb, suburban area, suburbia | a residential district located on the outskirts of a city. |
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