retirar

From re- +‎ tirar.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

retirar (first-person singular present retiro, first-person singular preterite retirí, past participle retirat)

1. to take away, remove
2. to take out, extract (money)
3. (reflexive) to leave, go out
4. (reflexive) to retire (stop working)
5. (reflexive) to pull out, leave
6. to retire, go to bed

• “retirar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “retirar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “retirar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “retirar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From re- +‎ tirar.

• Hyphenation: re‧ti‧rar

retirar (first-person singular present retiro, first-person singular preterite retirei, past participle retirado)

1. (transitive) to take away (to remove something and put it in a different place)

   Synonym: recolher

2. (transitive) to take away (to remove something so that a person no longer has it)

   Synonyms: confiscar, tomar

3. (transitive) to take away (to subtract or diminish something)

   Synonym: tirar

4. (transitive) to take away (to make someone leave a place and go somewhere else)

   Synonyms: conduzir, levar

5. (transitive) to withdraw (to take away or take back)
6. (transitive, banking, finance) to withdraw (to extract money from a bank account)

   Synonym: sacar

7. (transitive) to withdraw (to draw or pull something aside)
8. (transitive) to take back (to retract or withdraw an earlier statement)

   Eu retiro o que disse

   I take back what I've said

9. (transitive) to retract (to pull something back or back inside)

   Synonym: retrair

10. (transitive) to draw out; to extract; to remove
11. (reflexive, military) to retreat (to leave a battle or position where they are stationed)

    Synonym: recuar

12. (reflexive, formal) to leave; to go away

    Synonyms: ausentar-se, sair

13. (reflexive with de) to retire
14. (reflexive with de) to give up

• This verb is considered formal in most cases and is usually replaced by its synonyms.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:retirar.

• “retirar”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “retirar”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), Porto: 7Graus, 2009–2025
• “retirar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
• “retirar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “retirar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025

From re- +‎ tirar. Cognate with English retire.

• IPA^(key): /retiˈɾaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: re‧ti‧rar

retirar (first-person singular present retiro, first-person singular preterite retiré, past participle retirado)

1. to remove
2. to withdraw
3. (reflexive) to retreat, to withdraw
   • 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 56:

     En la laguna de Pudahel estuvo encantado un carretero con la carreta y los bueyes que guiaba, a los cuales todas las noches se le sentía azuzar con viveza. Quedó encantado por haber querido atravesar la laguna: ésta se fué retirando a medida que el carretero avanzaba, y cuando estuvo en mitad de ella, las aguas lo envolvieron.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

4. (reflexive) to retire (for a reason other than age)

   Synonym: (for age) jubilarse

   La estrella no tenía más remedio que retirarse después de una conmoción grave.

   The star had no choice but to retire after a really bad concussion.

• Retirar is a false friend, and does not mean retire in Spanish. The Spanish word for that English meaning of retirar is jubilar. However, it is frequently used with that meaning in Spanglish and American Spanish.

• “retirar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10