retire

«retire» in Mova's school dictionary: older — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (retire, retires, retired, retiring)

meaning for a pupil

1) To stop working, usually because you are older. tree →

2) (sport) To stop playing in a game or race, often because of injury. tree →

3) (formal) To go to bed or to a quiet room: «retire for the night». tree →

4) (formal) To go away from a place, like an army moving back. tree →

sense in the lessons

Adult life seen by a child: Grandma retired from nursing; a retirement party. In sport, a player retires injured or retires from the sport. In old stories, ladies «retire to the drawing room». Phrases: «retire from», «retire early», «retire hurt», «retired teacher».

examples

• Grandad retired after working at the post office for many years. tree →
• The runner had to retire from the race with a sore leg. tree →
• The guests retired for the night. tree →
• She plans to retire to the seaside. tree →
• My retired neighbour grows tomatoes. tree →
• The army retired behind the hill. tree →

note

Regular verb. Noun «retirement», person «retiree». Adjective «retired». «Retiring» can also mean shy. Retired people often receive a pension (money paid regularly).

In the corpora

• Retiring means stopping paid work for good, usually in your sixties, and living on a pension and savings.
• A police dog lives with its handler and usually retires to live with the handler's family as a pet.
• Most professional footballers retire in their 30s, and many outside the top leagues earn ordinary wages and need a second career.
• A pension is money paid to people after they retire, built up from what they paid in while working.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «retire» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.