retiring

4 definitions found

retiring - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Retire \Re*tire"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Retired; p. pr. & vb.
     n. Retiring.] [F. retirer; pref. re- re- + tirer to draw.
     See Tirade.]
     1. To withdraw; to take away; -- sometimes used reflexively.
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              He . . . retired himself, his wife, and children
              into a forest.                        --Sir P.
                                                    Sidney.
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              As when the sun is present all the year,
              And never doth retire his golden ray. --Sir J.
                                                    Davies.
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     2. To withdraw from circulation, or from the market; to take
        up and pay; as, to retire bonds; to retire a note.
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     3. 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.
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  Retiring \Re*tir"ing\, a.
     1. Reserved; shy; not forward or obtrusive; as, retiring
        modesty; retiring manners.
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     2. Of or pertaining to retirement; causing retirement; suited
        to, or belonging to, retirement.
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     Retiring board (Mil.), a board of officers who consider and
        report upon the alleged incapacity of an officer for
        active service.
  
     Retiring pension, a pension granted to a public officer on
        his retirement from office or service.
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retiring - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  retiring
      adj 1: not arrogant or presuming; "unassuming to a fault,
             skeptical about the value of his work"; "a shy retiring
             girl" [syn: retiring, unassuming]
      2: of a person who has held and relinquished a position or
         office; "a retiring member of the board" [syn: past(a),
         preceding(a), retiring(a)]
      3: reluctant to draw attention to yourself [syn: reticent,
         self-effacing, retiring]

retiring - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  106 Moby Thesaurus words for "retiring":
     Olympian, aloof, aseptic, backward, bashful, blank, boat-shaped,
     boatlike, bowl-shaped, bowllike, cavelike, cavernous, chilled,
     chilly, cold, concave, concaved, constrained, cool, coy,
     craterlike, cup-shaped, cupped, cymbiform, declining, demure,
     detached, diffident, diminishing, discreet, dish-shaped, dished,
     dishing, dishlike, distant, dwindling, dying, ebbing,
     expressionless, fading, forbidding, frigid, frosty,
     funnel-breasted, funnel-chested, funnel-shaped, guarded, hollow,
     hollowed, humble, icy, impassive, impersonal, inaccessible,
     incurved, incurving, incurvous, infundibular, infundibuliform,
     introverted, meek, modest, navicular, naviform, offish, quiet,
     rabbity, receding, reclusive, remote, removed, repressed, reserved,
     restrained, reticent, retreating, saucer-shaped, scaphoid,
     scyphate, self-effacing, shrinking, shy, sinking, spoonlike,
     standoff, standoffish, subdued, sunk, sunken, suppressed, timid,
     timorous, unaffable, unapproachable, unassertive, unassuming,
     unassured, uncongenial, undemonstrative, unexpansive, ungenial,
     unpretentious, unsociable, unsocial, waning, withdrawn