Definitions For Retire

verb

  • Prepare for sleep
  • Cause to get out
  • Cause to be out on a fielding play
  • Lose interest
  • Pull back or move away or backward
  • Dispose of (something no longer useful or needed)
  • Go into retirement; stop performing one's work or withdraw from one's position
  • Withdraw from active participation
  • Make (someone) retire
  • Break from a meeting or gathering
  • Withdraw from circulation or from the market, as of bills, shares, and bonds
  • To stop a job or career because you have reached the age when you are not allowed to work anymore or do not need or want to work anymore
  • To cause (someone, such as a military officer) to end a job or career
  • To stop playing in a game, competition, etc., especially because of injury

Is Retire a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
6
Words with Friends
6

The word Retire is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 6 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Retire in a Sentence

  • I want to be healthy when I retire.
  • She had to retire during the first set because of a muscle strain.
  • The Navy is retiring the old battleship.

Synonyms for Retire

Antonyms for Retire

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