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  • 41retire to stud — put out/retire/to stud phrase to keep a male animal that no longer works for breeding When Ebony grew too old to race they put him out to stud. Thesaurus: animal breeding and matinghyponym animal farminghyponym …

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  • 42Retire — Indesluttet, reserveret …

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  • 43retire — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. withdraw, retreat, leave, resign, rusticate, lie low, keep aloof; put out [to pasture]; go to bed. See seclusion, departure, recession, resignation, repose. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To draw away] Syn.… …

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  • 44retire — re·tire || rɪ taɪə(r) v. withdraw from a position (usually due to old age); go into seclusion, withdraw; remove oneself from a particular situation; go to bed …

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  • 45retire —    1. to kill    The victim certainly stops working:     I just retired a junkman. (Diehl, 1978)    2. to go to urinate    When the monarch retires on a public occasion, she does not abdicate. Whence a retiringroom, a lavatory, which may be any… …

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  • 46retire v — I used to assemble new automobiles, but then I retired …

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  • 47retire — verb 1》 leave one s job and cease to work, typically on reaching the normal age for leaving service.     ↘(of a sports player) cease to play competitively. 2》 withdraw from a race or match because of accident or injury.     ↘Baseball put out (a… …

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  • 48retire — I. v. a. Withdraw from circulation (as currency). II. v. n. 1. Withdraw, depart, retreat, remove, leave. 2. Recede, retrocede, fall back, beat a retreat …

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  • 49retire — v 1. withdraw, go apart, isolate oneself, secede, separate oneself; rusticate, hibernate, estivate; leave, depart, decamp, take off, go off, go away, abscond; exit, take one s leave; retreat, fall or draw back, give way, lose ground, take flight …

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  • 50retire — re·tire …

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