<p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li><p>(used without object) to withdraw from one's career, occupation, or office, usually because of age: to retire at the age of sixty.</p></li><li><p>to withdraw, or go away or apart, to a place of privacy, shelter, or seclusion: He retired to his study.</p></li><li><p>to go to bed: He retired at midnight.</p></li><li><p>to fall back or retreat in an orderly fashion and according to plan, as from battle, an untenable position, danger, etc.</p></li><li><p>to withdraw or remove oneself: After announcing the guests, the butler retired.</p></li><li><p>Synonyms: withdraw, leave.</p></li><li><p>(used with object) to give up (an office, position, etc.), often formally.</p></li><li><p>Synonyms: leave, quit, abdicate, renounce.</p></li><li><p>to relinquish (a right, claim, agreement, etc.).</p></li><li><p>Synonyms: cede, surrender, forgo, give up.</p></li><li><p>to give or sign over, as to the control or care of another: She resigned her child to an adoption agency.</p></li><li><p>to submit (oneself, one's mind, etc.) without resistance.</p></li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>Literary: a place of withdrawal; retreat: a cool retire from summer's heat.</li><li>retirement or withdrawal, as from worldly matters or the company of others.</li></ul>