Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (v. t.) To withdraw; to take away; -- sometimes used reflexively. 2. (v. t.) To withdraw from circulation, or from the market; to take up and pay; as, to retire bonds; to retire a note. 3. (v. t.) 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. 4. (v. i.) 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. 5. (v. i.) To retreat from action or danger; to withdraw for safety or pleasure; as, to retire from battle. 6. (v. i.) To withdraw from a public station, or from business; as, having made a large fortune, he retired. 7. (v. i.) To recede; to fall or bend back; as, the shore of the sea retires in bays and gulfs. 8. (v. i.) To go to bed; as, he usually retires early. 9. (n.) The act of retiring, or the state of being retired; also, a place to which one retires. 10. (n.) A call sounded on a bugle, announcing to skirmishers that they are to retire, or fall back.

Multi-Version Concordance Retire (6 Occurrences) Numbers 8:25 And from fifty years old he shall retire from the labour of the service, and shall serve no more; (DBY NAS NIV) 2 Samuel 11:15 And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die. (KJV JPS ASV WBS) 2 Kings 18:14 And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, I have sinned; retire from me: I will bear what thou layest upon me. And the king of Assyria laid upon Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold. (DBY) Psalms 127:2 It is of no use for you to get up early, and to go late to your rest, with the bread of sorrow for your food; for the Lord gives to his loved ones in sleep. (See NAS) Jeremiah 4:6 Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction. (KJV WBS) Ezekiel 11:15 Son of man, thy brethren, even thy brethren, the men of thy kindred, and all the house of Israel wholly, are they to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Retire far from the LORD: to us is this land given in possession. (WBS)