Synonym: bashful, distant, modest, reserved, restrained, shy, timid. Similar words: tiring, retire, retired, retirement, firing, stirring, aspiring, admiring. Meaning: [rɪ'tɪərɪŋ] adj. 1. moving toward a position farther from the front 2. not arrogant or presuming 3. of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office 4. reluctant to draw attention to yourself.
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151. That day in the evening, after retiring for the night when father, I take his shoe in bavin canopy quickly.
152. a quiet, retiring man.
153. Professor Brown's beginning to slow up; he'll be retiring next year.
154. American professional basketball Alonzo Mourning is retiring after learning that he will need a kidney transplant.
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155. Her mother, Xing Xiuqin, 60, bragged that she managed to stash away 80 percent of her income before retiring.
156. On top of Alan ( Shearer ) retiring, it is a huge blow.
157. We're having a whip-round for old Fred, who's retiring from the firm.
158. Britons now retiring on private pensions will receive an income 30% less than those who left work three years ago (see Buttonwood).
159. Mullen took over for retiring Marine Gen. Peter Pace as the senior military adviser to the president and the defense secretary.
160. Monteiro a series of stops before retiring with bodywork and radiator damage.
161. Webster is retiring as head of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
162. He went on to become an electronics technician, but after retiring, he began volunteering as a docent at Angel Island in hopes of drawing more attention to that moment in history.
163. He had often dreamed of retiring in England and had planned to settle down in the country.
164. Although he reaches retiring age, he doesn't want to retire from work for retired pay .
165. Blatter has stated it will be his final term before retiring from the organization.
166. If it were U. S. policy to disallow any retiring officer his pension while working for a defense contractor we would see the end of this patently false bits of trash published as news by the pentagon!
167. Before retiring she served as a board member for corporations and non - profit organizations.
168. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgement and disposition of business.
169. It was in 1846, on George Washington's birthday, that the final expansion of the crack occurred, retiring the Liberty Bell permanently.
170. His performance as King Lear was to be his Swan Song before retiring.
171. What would you say to my retiring at the Fifth Plenary Session ?
172. Retiring AC Milan legend Paolo Maldini has told the club that they must do everything in their power to sign Sergio Ramos.
173. The retiring warden delivered over the keys of the prison to his successor.
174. But more traditional catalysts for deal-making, such as product diversification, retiring owners and capital and distribution needs, look set to make a comeback as well, the report predicts.
175. I'm retiring next month. They're putting me out to pasture.
176. Duncan takes the greatest big vanguard, after retiring, he will enter Springfield's Hall of Fame surely.
177. I've got to eat, ' says Dickie Arbiter, 70, who became a royal pundit after retiring as a public relations man for Buckingham Palace.
178. Marshall had been recalled to become secretary of state by President Harry S Truman at the beginning of 1947, after retiring from the Pentagon at the end of the war as Army chief of staff.
179. The baby-boom generation has entered its 50s and over the next few years will be retiring in 1arge numbers.
180. Sir Charles was a retiring man, but the chance of his illness brought us together, and a community of interests in science kept us so.
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