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retiring

/rɪˈtʌɪərɪŋ/

US pronunciation

American sound/rɪˈtʌɪərɪŋ/

rɪˈtʌɪərɪŋ

Syllables: 3 syllables
Stress: 2nd syllable stress
Vowel: Schwa vowel
Ending: Final ng sound

rɪ - ˈtʌɪərɪŋ -> retiring

Myanmar meaning

(v[ing]) အငြိမ်းစားယူနေ

Full entry

retire /rÇ'taÇǝ(r)/ v

၁။ (က) ~ (from sth) အငြိမ်းစား ယူသည်။ ပင်စင်ယူသည်။
Judges should retire at 65. ❍ The company's official retiring age is 60. ❍ She has decided to retire early (ie before reaching the usual age). ❍ He will retire from the army next year. ❍ He retired as manager of the team in1993.
(ခ) (esp passive) အငြိမ်းစားပေး သည်။ ပင်စင်ပေးသည်။ I was retired on medical grounds. Compare RESIGN ၁
၂။ ~ (from…) (to…) (fml ) ခွာ သည်။ (ရှေး) စစ်ပြန်သည်။ The battalion retired to prepared positions. Compare RETREAT ၁(က)
၃။ (က) ~ (from…) (to…) (fml ) (သီးသီးသန့်သန့်၊ ဆိတ်ငြိမ်ရာ) သွားနေသည်။
The jury retired (from the courtroom) to consider their verdict. ❍ After lunch he retired to his study. (ခ) (fml or rhet ) အိပ်ရာဝင်သည်။ I decided to retire early with a book.
၄။ ~ (from sth) (အားကစား ယှဉ်ပြိုင်ရာမှ အနာတရဖြစ်မှု စသည်ကြောင့်) ဆက်မယှဉ်ပြိုင်တော့၊ ဆက်မကစားတော့။
The boxer retired from the contest with eye injuries. ❍ The batsman retired hurt.
❏ retired adj အငြိမ်းစား။ ပင်စင်စား။ a retired Civil Servant.
❏ retiring /rÇ'taÇǝrÇŋ/ adj လူသူနှင့်ဝေးဝေး သီးသန့်နေလို သော။ ရှက်တတ်သော။
a quiet, retiring girl.

More examples

[retire from] : He retired from the army last month.
[retire as] : Mr Garroway retired as chairman of the historical society in May.
The committee will now retire in order to discuss these issues.
[retire from] : At the age of 83, she finally retired from public life.
[retire to] : In the evenings, Lloyd retired to his study to write.
He retired hurt with a bloody nose.
My printer was three years old, so I retired it.

Synonyms

give up work, stop working, absent oneself, be pensioned off, be put out to pasture, be superannuated, call it a day, decamp, deny oneself, depart, draw back, ebb, exit, fall back, get away, get off, give ground, give way, go, go away, go off, go to bed, go to one's room, go to sleep, hand over, hit the hay, hit the sack, leave, leave service, make vacant, part, pull back, pull out, recede, regress, relinquish, remove, repeal, rescind, resign, retreat, revoke, run along, rusticate, secede, seclude oneself, separate, sever connections, step down, surrender, take off, take your leave, turn in, withdraw, yield

Antonyms

advance, approve, arrive, begin, come in, continue, enter, increase, join, remain, stay

Cross references

give up work stop working absent oneself be pensioned off be put out to pasture be superannuated call it a day decamp deny oneself depart draw back ebb exit fall back get away get off give ground give way go go away go off go to bed go to one's room go to sleep hand over hit the hay hit the sack leave

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