retiring

Speech parts

1. retiring - Noun

2. retiring - Adjective

3. retiring - Verb

5. retiring - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Retire

Reserved; shy; not forward or obtrusive; as, retiring modesty; retiring manners.

Of or pertaining to retirement; causing retirement; suited to, or belonging to, retirement.

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Examples

Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered. Harriet Martineau

Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script. Anthony Hopkins

I realized it might be possible to do such a thing, run for money, trot for wages on piece work at a bob a puff rising bit by bit to a guinea a gasp and retiring through old age at thirty-two because of lace-curtain lungs, a football heart, and legs like varicose beanstalks. Alan Sillitoe

The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work on the proceeds, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists. Logan Pearsall Smith

For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make. Gabriela Sabatini

My beloved beliebers I'm officially retiring. Justin Bieber

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