Definition of "retiring" []

• Shy and reserved; modest. (adjective)

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• "Eleven o'clock had struck some half-hour ago, and the elder Steffinks began to throw out suggestions leading up to that process which they called retiring for the night."
• "Hughes dropped out of filmmaking in 1991, retiring from the public eye, and rarely granting or giving interviews to the media."
• "After retiring from the military in 1972, Westmoreland moved to Charleston, South Carolina, and spent some of his time as a public speaker."