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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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Retiring \Re*tir"ing\, adjective
1. Reserved; shy; not forward or obtrusive; as, retiring modesty; retiring manners.
2. Of or pertaining to retirement; causing retirement; suited to, or belonging to, retirement.
{Retiring board} (Mil.), a board of officers who consider and report upon the alleged incapacity of an officer for active service.
{Retiring pension}, a pension granted to a public officer on his retirement from office or service.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
retiring
adjective
1: not blatant or overly aggressive in manner or appearance; "a retiring disposition" [syn: {unassertive}]
2: moving toward a position farther from the front; "the receding glaciers of the last ice age"; "retiring fogs revealed the rocky coastline" [syn: {receding}]
3: not arrogant or presuming; "unassuming to a fault, skeptical about the value of his work"; "a shy retiring girl" [syn: {unassuming}]
4: of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office; "a retiring member of the board" [syn: {past(a)}, {preceding(a)}, {retiring(a)}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
106 Moby Thesaurus words for "retiring": Olympian, aloof, aseptic, backward, bashful, blank, boat-shaped, boatlike, bowl-shaped, bowllike, cavelike, cavernous, chilled, chilly, cold, concave, concaved, constrained, cool, coy, craterlike, cup-shaped, cupped, cymbiform, declining, demure, detached, diffident, diminishing, discreet, dish-shaped, dished, dishing, dishlike, distant, dwindling, dying, ebbing, expressionless, fading, forbidding, frigid, frosty, funnel-breasted, funnel-chested, funnel-shaped, guarded, hollow, hollowed, humble, icy, impassive, impersonal, inaccessible, incurved, incurving, incurvous, infundibular, infundibuliform, introverted, meek, modest, navicular, naviform, offish, quiet, rabbity, receding, reclusive, remote, removed, repressed, reserved, restrained, reticent, retreating, saucer-shaped, scaphoid, scyphate, self-effacing, shrinking, shy, sinking, spoonlike, standoff, standoffish, subdued, sunk, sunken, suppressed, timid, timorous, unaffable, unapproachable, unassertive, unassuming, unassured, uncongenial, undemonstrative, unexpansive, ungenial, unpretentious, unsociable, unsocial, waning, withdrawn
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