[rɪˈtʌɪə], (Verb)

Definitions:
- leave one's job and cease to work, typically on reaching the normal age for leaving service
(e.g: he retired from the Navy in 1986)

- withdraw to or from a particular place
(e.g: she retired into the bathroom)

- withdraw (a bill or note) from circulation or currency

- pay off or cancel (a debt)
(e.g: the debt is to be retired from state gaming-tax receipts)


Phrases:

Origin:
mid 16th century (in the sense ‘withdraw to a place of safety or seclusion’): from French retirer, from re- ‘back’ + tirer ‘draw’

[ˌrɛtiːˈreɪ], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a movement in which one leg is raised at right angles to the body until the toe is in line with the knee of the supporting leg


Phrases:

Origin:
French, literally ‘drawn back’