retirar
Spanish, verb/retiˈɾaɾ/
retirar is a Spanish verb meaning “to remove” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Quitar o alejar a algo o alguien de una cosa o persona, de modo que no estén en contacto”.
What does retirar mean in English?
verb
- 1
Latin-Americacolloquialto remove
- 2
to withdraw
- 3
to retreat, to withdraw
- 4
Latin-Americato retire
La estrella no tenía más remedio que retirarse después de una conmoción grave.
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Quitar o alejar a algo o alguien de una cosa o persona, de modo que no estén en contacto. 2. Quitar o alejar algo de modo que no sea visible. 3. Sacar o alejar a una persona de una actividad. 4. Desdecirse de lo dicho anteriormente.
verb: 1. Tener un aspecto que se parece o semeja a algo o alguien.
verb: 1. Imprimir el revés de un pliego ya estampado por la cara.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of retirar
- retiro first-person present singular
- retiré first-person preterite singular
- retirado participle past
- retirando gerund
- retirada feminine participle past
- retirados masculine participle past
- retiradas feminine participle past
- retiras indicative informal present
- retirás indicative informal present
- retira indicative present singular
- retiramos first-person indicative plural
- retiráis indicative plural present
- retiran indicative plural present
- retiraba first-person imperfect indicative
- retirabas imperfect indicative second-person
- retirábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- retirabais imperfect indicative plural
- retiraban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce retirar?
- /retiˈɾaɾ/
- [re.t̪iˈɾaɾ]
- [ret̪iˈɾaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to retirar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is retirar in Spanish?
retirar appears 14 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).