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.
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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181. The Connacht victory gave retiring duo Matt Mostyn and Darren Yapp a winning send-off.
182. From early dawn to the last'Holy Father'before retiring, she nibbled at various delicacies.
183. John Rimmer taught at the School of Music, University of Auckland before retiring in 1999.
184. After retiring from WHO in 1988, he directed the International Planned Parenthood Federation until 1995.
185. He bought the cottage with an eye to retiring there.
186. She won three Olympic gold medals, and after retiring from competitive swimming in 2001 she started a couching career.
187. But nearly everyone has been shocked to hear the ads of Glenn Miller, a write-in candidate to replace the retiring Kit Bond in the Senate.
188. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring.
More similar words: tiring, retire, retired, retirement, firing, stirring, aspiring, admiring, perspiring, inspiring, individual retirement account, discretionary spending, genetic engineering, be tired of, aspirin, heretic, retina, retinue, heretical, reticent, reticule, spare time, secretive, accretion, syncretic, reticence, concretize, discretion, theoretical, reticulate.