Repose vs Retire - What's the difference?
repose | retire |
(dated) rest, sleep
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quietness, ease; peace, calmness
* Dante Divine Comedy,Inferno, Canto 10
(geology) period between eruptions of a volcano.
To lie at rest; to rest.
* Chapman
To lie; to be supported.
To lay, to set down.
* Chapman
* Woodward
To place, have, or rest; to set; to entrust.
* Shakespeare
To reside in something.
(figuratively) To remain or abide restfully without anxiety or alarms.
* I. Taylor
(rare) The act of retiring, or the state of being retired; also, a place to which one retires.
(dated) A call sounded on a bugle, announcing to skirmishers that they are to retire, or fall back.
To withdraw; to take away; -- sometimes used reflexively.
* Sir Philip Sidney
* Sir J. Davies
To withdraw from circulation, or from the market; to take up and pay; as, to retire bonds; to retire a note.
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.
(transitive, cricket, of a batsman) to voluntarily stop batting before being dismissed so that the next batsman can bat
(transitive, baseball, of a fielder), to make a defensive play which results in a runner or the batter being put out
To go back or return; to draw back or away; to keep aloof; to withdraw or retreat, as from observation; to go into privacy; as, to retire to his home; to retire from the world, or from notice.
To retreat from action or danger; to withdraw for safety or pleasure; as, to retire from battle.
To withdraw from a public station, from working, or from business
To recede; to fall or bend back; as, the shore of the sea retires in bays and gulfs.
To go to bed; as, he usually retires early.
As verbs the difference between repose and retire
is that repose is while retire is .repose
English
Noun
- Dark and deserted as it was, the night was full of small noises, song and chatter and rustling, telling of the busy little population who were up and about, plying their trades and vocations through the night till sunshine should fall on them at last and send them off to their well-earned repose .
- You would not rob us of our repose , would you, comrades? You would not have us too tired to carry out our duties?
- So may thy lineage find at last repose I thus adjured him
Synonyms
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- Within a thicket I reposed .
- trap reposing on sand
- But these thy fortunes let us straight repose / In this divine cave's bosom.
- Pebbles reposed in those cliffs amongst the earth are left behind.
- The king reposeth all his confidence in thee.
- It is upon these that the soul may repose .
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English
Noun
(en noun)- At the retire , the cavalry fell back.
Verb
- He retired himself, his wife, and children into a forest.
- As when the sun is present all the year, / And never doth retire his golden ray.
- The central bank retired those notes five years ago.
- The board retired the old major.
- Jones retired in favour of Smith.
- Jones retired Smith 6-3.
- I will retire to the study.''
- The regiment retired from the fray after the Major was killed.
- Having made a large fortune, he retired .
- He wants to retire at 55.
- Past the point, the shore retires into a sequence of coves.
- I will retire for the night.