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retiring 音標拼音: [rɪt'ɑɪrɪŋ] [rit'ɑɪɚɪŋ] [rit'ɑɪrɪŋ] a. 隱退的,退休的,退縮的 隱退的,退休的,退縮的 retiring adj 1: not arrogant or presuming; " unassuming to a fault, skeptical about the value of his work"; " a shy retiring girl" [ synonym: { retiring}, { unassuming}] 2: of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office; " a retiring member of the board" [ synonym: { past( a)}, { preceding( a)}, { retiring( a)}] 3: reluctant to draw attention to yourself [ synonym: { reticent}, { self- effacing}, { retiring}] 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. [ 1913 Webster] He . . . retired himself, his wife, and children into a forest. -- Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster] As when the sun is present all the year, And never doth retire his golden ray. -- Sir J. Davies. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To withdraw from circulation, or from the market; to take up and pay; as, to retire bonds; to retire a note. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster]
Retiring \ Re* tir" ing\, a. 1. Reserved; shy; not forward or obtrusive; as, retiring modesty; retiring manners. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Of or pertaining to retirement; causing retirement; suited to, or belonging to, retirement. [ 1913 Webster] { 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. [ 1913 Webster] 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
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