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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Retired \Re*tired"\, adjective
1. Private; secluded; quiet; as, a retired life; a person of retired habits.
A retired part of the peninsula. --Hawthorne.
2. Withdrawn from active duty or business; as, a retired officer; a retired physician.
{Retired flank} (Fort.), a flank bent inward toward the rear of the work.
{Retired list} (Mil. & Naval), a list of officers, who, by reason of advanced age or other disability, are relieved from active service, but still receive a specified amount of pay from the government. -- {Re*tired"ly}, adverb -- {Re*tired"ness}, n.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Retire \Re*tire"\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Retired}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Retiring}.] [F. retirer; pref. re- re- + tirer to draw. See {Tirade}.]
1. To withdraw; to take away; -- sometimes used reflexively.
He . . . retired himself, his wife, and children into a forest. --Sir P. Sidney.
As when the sun is present all the year, And never doth retire his golden ray. --Sir J. Davies.
2. To withdraw from circulation, or from the market; to take up and pay; as, to retire bonds; to retire a note.
3. To cause to retire; specifically, to designate as no longer qualified for active service; to place on the retired list; as, to retire a military or naval officer.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
retired
adjective
1: no longer active in your work or profession
2: honorably retired from assigned duties and retaining your title along with the additional title 'emeritus' as in 'professor emeritus'; 'retired from assigned duties' need not imply that one is inactive [syn: {emeritus}]
3: not allowed to continue to bat or run; "he was tagged out at second on a close play"; "he fanned out" [syn: {out(p)}] [ant: {safe(p)}]
4: (of a ship) withdrawn from active service; "the ship was placed out of service after the war" [syn: {out of service}]
5: discharged as too old for use or work; especially with a pension; "a superannuated civil servant" [syn: {superannuated}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
75 Moby Thesaurus words for "retired": abandoned, abjured, anonymous, antiquated, antique, apart, archaic, closet, deserted, detached, devious, discontinued, disused, done with, emeritus, free, idle, in a backwater, in retirement, incognito, inmost, innermost, insular, interior, intimate, inward, isolated, leisure, leisured, lonesome, not worth saving, obsolescent, obsolete, old, old-fashioned, on pension, on the shelf, open, out, out of use, out-of-date, out-of-the-way, out-of-the-world, outdated, outmoded, outworn, past use, pensioned, pensioned off, personal, private, privy, quarantined, relinquished, remote, removed, renounced, resigned, secluded, secret, segregated, semiretired, separate, separated, sequestered, shut off, spare, superannuate, superannuated, superseded, unfrequented, unoccupied, unvisited, withdrawn, worn-out
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