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retiringadjective not comfortable around peopleone retiring young girl was sitting alone quietly in a corner during the party backward, bashful, coy, demure, diffident, introverted, modest, recessive, self-effacing, sheepish, shy, withdrawn antisocial, lone, lone-wolf, unsociable, unsocialawkward, embarrassed, self-conscious, unadventurous, unassertive, unenterprisinginhibited, reserved, uneasy, uptight extroverted(also extraverted), immodest, outgoing boon, clubbable(also clubable), companionable, convivial, gregarious, sociable, socialbold, dashing, forcefulbrash, forward, overbold, uninhibited, unreserved to go to one's bed in order to sleepI'm exhausted, so I think I'll retire for the evening bedding, crashing(slang), dossing (down)(chiefly British), turning in bunking, perching, roosting, settlingdozing, dropping off, napping, nodding, sleeping, slumbering, snoozingcouching, lying (down), reclining hitting the hay(or hitting the sack) arising, getting up, rising, uprising arousing, awakening, awaking, rousing, wakening, wakingbestirring, stirringreawakening, reawakingshifting, stirring to let go from office, service, or employmentas a part of its restructuring, the company has begun to retire its older employees axing, bouncing, canning, cashiering, discharging, dismissing, firing, mustering out, pink-slipping, releasing, removing, sacking, terminating, turning off downsizing, excessing, furloughing, laying off, trimmingbooting (out), chucking (out), drumming (out), kicking out, throwing out, unseatingseparating sending packing, showing (someone) the door employing, engaging, hiring, retaining, signing (up or on), taking on keepingreemploying(or re-employing), rehiringcontracting, subcontractingrecruiting to move back or away (as from something difficult, dangerous, or disagreeable)the insurgents have retired to the outskirts of the city, but appear to be readying themselves for another offensive backing away, dropping back, falling back, pulling out, receding, retreating, withdrawing fleeing, flyingflinching, recoiling, shrinkingchickening (out)bowing outbacking down, backpedaling, backtracking, climbing downdetaching, disengaging, disentangling, pulling awayabandoning, departing, evacuating, going, leaving, quitting, vacating giving ground, giving way, losing ground advancing bearding, braving, brazening, breasting, confronting, daring, defying, facing, outbraving in 1566 |