RETIRES Synonyms: 117 Similar and Opposite Words

retires

verb

present tense third-person singular of retire

as in settles

to go to one's bed in order to sleep I'm exhausted, so I think I'll retire for the evening

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as in dismisses

to let go from office, service, or employment as a part of its restructuring, the company has begun to retire its older employees

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as in withdraws

to move back or away (as from something difficult, dangerous, or disagreeable) the insurgents have retired to the outskirts of the city, but appear to be readying themselves for another offensive

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Recent Examples of retires Once every child has performed, the jury retires to a quiet office to deliberate. — Julie Bourdin, NPR, 25 Oct. 2026 The new OpenBSD also retires support for Loongson architecture after the port stopped working with the Clang 22 compiler. — Nick Indge, ArsTechnica, 20 Oct. 2026 Figure 02 leaves the fleet Figure’s newer platform also arrives as the company retires its predecessor. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 19 Oct. 2026 Furthermore, if a Republican justice retires should Democrats win the Senate, the move will almost certainly be viewed as purely partisan. — The Conversation, 14 Oct. 2026 The department will also formalize its practice of informing state officials when an officer retires while disciplinary charges are still pending, in order to prevent them from being hired at another policing agency. — ABC News, 12 Oct. 2026 Police officials will also submit personnel information for decertification when an officer retires with pending disciplinary charges. — Christina Fan, CBS News, 12 Oct. 2026 SpaceX already retires aging Starlink satellites by burning them up in the Earth’s atmosphere. — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 18 Sep. 2026 New products, markets, channels and customer exceptions can accumulate faster than your organization retires old ones. — Basant Singh, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2026

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Waititi never settles on one either, most often opting for a glibness that treats key aspects of the plot, including Klara’s rudimentary faith, into something like a joke.

— Alison Willmore, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2026
Smoke from fires in the Sierra foothills, the North Coast and the northern Sacramento Valley often settles over Sacramento, and late-summer smoke tends to arrive during heat waves.

— Sean Macaday, Sacbee.com, 21 Oct. 2026

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Popular airline withdraws from three locations, leaving travelers with fewer routes.

— , FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2026
Investopedia made a state-by-state set of estimates for a single retiree who collects the average Social Security benefit of $1,975 a month and withdraws 4% of savings a year.

— Jim Edwards, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2026

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Therefore, the researchers' anode not only removes a toxic contaminant but also reduces the energy needed to produce hydrogen at the cathode, increasing the system's overall hydrogen-production efficiency.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 24 Oct. 2026
Endurance testing Heating the material triggers a chemical reaction that removes loose chlorine ions and forms strong bonds between indium, oxygen, and phosphorus.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 23 Oct. 2026

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Meanwhile, Mercury stations retrograde in Scorpio and Venus retreats into Libra, joining Saturn retrograde in Aries, Uranus in Gemini, and Neptune in Aries.

— Lisa Stardust, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2026
But even as the characters reflect at length on the virtue of putting themselves out there, their series too often retreats within itself instead.

— Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 12 Oct. 2026