Clues for the word "RETIRE"
We've had 80 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 242 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on July 20, 2026.
Definition of retire
- v. t. - To withdraw; to take away; -- sometimes used reflexively.
- v. t. - To withdraw from circulation, or from the market; to take up and pay; as, to retire bonds; to retire a note.
- 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.
- 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.
- v. i. - To retreat from action or danger; to withdraw for safety or pleasure; as, to retire from battle.
- v. i. - To withdraw from a public station, or from business; as, having made a large fortune, he retired.
- v. i. - To recede; to fall or bend back; as, the shore of the sea retires in bays and gulfs.
- v. i. - To go to bed; as, he usually retires early.
- n. - The act of retiring, or the state of being retired; also, a place to which one retires.
- n. - A call sounded on a bugle, announcing to skirmishers that they are to retire, or fall back.
Referring Clues
- Stop working
- Bow out
- Turn in
- Go on Social Security, maybe
- Stop working at 65, say
- Go to bed
- Take out of circulation
- Hang it up
- Quit for good, jobwise
- Leave one's post, possibly
- Hit the hay
- Put out to pasture
- Withdraw
- What kids don't like to do at a slumber party
- Receive a golden handshake, perhaps
- Hang it up, so to speak
- Call it a night
- Say good-night
- Put on the shelf
- Hit the sack
- Conclude a career
- Go on a pension
- Move to Florida, maybe
- Call it a day
- Head for bed
- Hang up one's cleats
- Call it a career
- Call it quits
- Leave the work force
- Hang up the spikes
- Become a pensioner
- Hang up the gloves
- Go to sleep
- Move to Florida?
- Strike out, as a batter
- Head to bed
- Make more time for hobbies, say
- Finish the job?
- Quit using
- Leave one's job
- Quit work
- Go to bed and start drawing a pension
- What you want an old, terrible performer to do
- What artist might do after farewell tour
- Pull back
- What you want some terrible performers to do
- What every rocker will do, eventually
- Finish following one's career
- Go back to bed?
- Stop working for the Queen - upset over hassle
- Give up work
- Go out of business?
- Go back - but not to work
- Eritrea, unsettled after losing leading athlete, has to withdraw
- Stop working and go to bed
- Exhaust the Queen, coming up first to go to bed
- Withdraw when about to grow weary
- Sappers become weary and withdraw
- Stop working in retreat
- English author not starting to get up, go to bed
- Give up work again: get fed up with it
- Retreat
- Call it a day ... or a career
- Bow out, in a way
- Give up work and go to bed
- Back out of some business
- Withdraw when about to get weary
- Move to a warmer climate?
- Withdraw oneself
- Quit working
- Start drawing a pension
- Hang 'em up
- Leave work permanently
- End a career
- Hang up the cleats, so to speak
- Go out of business?
- Leave the workforce
- Stop working forever
- Strike out, perhaps
- Stop working for good
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 20, 2026
- LA Times - July 07, 2026
- Your Life Choices - July 02, 2026
- Daily American - June 30, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - June 27, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - June 10, 2026
- Mirror Daily - April 29, 2026
- Daily American - April 11, 2026
- Daily Quick - February 27, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - February 23, 2026
- LA Times - February 22, 2026
- Mirror Daily - February 06, 2026
- Daily American - January 09, 2026
- Mirror Daily - November 19, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - November 10, 2025
- New York Times - November 09, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - November 07, 2025
- Mirror Daily - July 11, 2025
- LA Times - July 06, 2025
- Your Life Choices - June 19, 2025
- Daily American - June 04, 2025
- Mirror Daily - May 30, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 14, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - May 01, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - April 22, 2025
- Mirror Daily - March 22, 2025
- Daily American - January 30, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 23, 2025
- Mirror Daily - January 16, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 24, 2024
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