v.
1.go into retirement
2.withdraw from active participation
3.pull back or move away or backward
4.move back and away from
5.withdraw from circulation or from the market, as of bills, shares, and bonds
6.break from a meeting or gathering
7.make (someone) retire
8.dispose of
9.lose interest 10.cause to be out on a fielding play 11.cause to retire 12.go to bed in order to sleep
Idiom of the Day
throw up one's hands (in defeat)
to give up trying, to admit that one cannot succeed
The professor threw up his hands and decided to let the students go home early.