Retiring and Short

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Retiring adjective - Not comfortable around people.

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Short and retiring are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Short" instead an adjective "Retiring".

Nearby Words: retire, retired, retirement

Short adjective - Having relatively little height.

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Retiring and short are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Retiring" instead an adjective "Short".

Edge gradually shortened his after retiring but went fully short before his Hall of Fame induction.

Source: Important Haircut
Look up his description for details, but the short version is that he has managed to live to a very old age in a profession that typically has a very short life expectancy, and he's not retiring any time soon.

Source: Literature / Discworld
Short of sitting motionless on a planet for the rest of your ingame career and/or retiring (that is, deleting your character) and returning without letting anyone know who you were, there is no way to avoid this retribution.

Source: Video Game / Pardus

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