Many wonderful secrets are kept by the language, and the meaning of words is only the top layer. Nevertheless, in order to reveal deeper layers of information and solve linguistic puzzles, you need to start with a simple one. The article tells the story of the sacrament "retreated" and explains its meaning. This is the main task for today.
Origin of the word
When a word is incomprehensible, but you want to know something more than just a meaning, you should turn to the etymological dictionary. It has not everything, but much. All sufferers will find there answers to questions. It’s not a shame to search, it’s a shame not to be interested in anything. Therefore, open the magic book and level our ignorance.
To watch, of course, you need the infinitive to "retire." The dictionary says that the definition came to us from either German or French. In the latter there is the word retirer - "drag back." If translated into more familiar Russian, it will turn out to "retreat." However, possible synonyms for the meaning of the word “retire”, or rather, for the participle formed from the verb, will appear a little later, after the main program. And we move further along the route.
Meaning and use of the word
By the way, after all, to “retire” is the return form of “retreat”. But the last infinitive is practically not used. I wonder if he is in the explanatory dictionary? No, in this form it is not. But the reflexive verb is present and means: "Leave imperceptibly or secretly." There is a note: "Obsolete and ironic."
Suggestions that will show in practice how the sacrament can be used:
- He came with flowers, but then he saw a pumped-up young man with perfect teeth giving a bouquet of his dreams to a girl of his dreams and silently disappeared, and threw the flowers into the nearest trash. Thus, he became the first of the retired (and this is sad) guests. Probably, no one noticed his presence, as well as his absence.
- At first, when he made an appointment, he didn’t think that she would come with her boyfriend. What's the point of dating a guy? It’s the same as traveling to Tula with your own samovar, but if you don’t need a samovar, that is, a guy, refuse immediately. And he quickly turned into a retreat. This solution was prompted by the situation itself.
- Peter came to the library for an evening of poetry in the hope of meeting the girl of his dreams, but there were few girls, and there were a lot of bad poems, and Peter quickly realized that he had to fish in another place and tried on the role of a retiring subject.
From the examples it follows that the one who retired is the one who left. You can even add that you should leave on time and silently, based on the meaning of the sacrament. But we restrict ourselves to a minimal definition.
Synonyms
Such a participle does not sound too harmonious, therefore, you can use synonyms instead:
- departed;
- retreated;
- retired;
- cleaned up;
- wound up.
It would be possible to give the reader more substitute words, but it is better to provide an instrument with which you can create such replacements. Take the verb, which means the same as the object of study (here you need to think), and turn it into a participle. It is not hard. If the meaning is more or less the same, then leave as a synonym.