Dictionary entry
Retire
Pronunciation: /rɪˈtʌɪə/
Pronunciation
/rɪˈtʌɪə/
Myanmar Meaning
(v) အငြိမ်းစားယူ
Definition
retire /rÇ'taÇǝ(r)/ v ၁။ (က) ~ (from sth) အၿငိမ္းစား ယူသည္။ ပင္စင္ယူသည္။ 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) အၿငိမ္းစားေပး သည္။ ပင္စင္ေပးသည္။ I was retired on medical grounds. Compare RESIGN ၁ ၂။ ~ (from…) (to…) ( fml ) ခြာ သည္။ (ေရွး) စစ္ျပန္သည္။ The battalion retired to prepared positions. Compare RETREAT ၁(က) ၃။ (က) ~ (from…) (to…) ( fml ) (သီးသီးသန္႔သန္႔၊ ဆိတ္ၿငိမ္ရာ) သြားေနသည္။ The jury retired (from the courtroom) to consider their verdict. ❍ After lunch he retired to his study. (ခ) ( fml or rhet ) အိပ္ရာဝင္သည္။ I decided to retire early with a book. ၄။ ~ (from sth) (အားကစား ယွဥ္ၿပိဳင္ရာမွ အနာတရျဖစ္မႈ စသည္ေၾကာင့္) ဆက္မယွဥ္ၿပိဳင္ေတာ့၊ ဆက္မကစားေတာ့။ The boxer retired from the contest with eye injuries. ❍ The batsman retired hurt. ❏ retired adj အၿငိမ္းစား။ ပင္စင္စား။ a retired Civil Servant. ❏ retiring /rÇ'taÇǝrÇŋ/ adj လူသူႏွင့္ေဝးေဝး သီးသန္႔ေနလို ေသာ။ ရွက္တတ္ေသာ။ a quiet, retiring girl.
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.