What is another word for "retire"?
Roget's Thesaurus (1911) lists these synonyms for "retire": abandonment, abate, abatement, abdicant, abdicate, abdication, abjuration, abjure, abridge, abridgment, abrogate, accept, and, anticlimax, attenuate, avaunt, away, back, background, balance, bashful, bashfulness, bate, beat, become, behind, below, blush, blushing, bottom, bushel, candle, cast, ceremony, coarctation, come, commonalty, constrained, constraint, contract.
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- Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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