be pensioned



abdicate, give up, leave, pension off, quit, relinquish, resign, retire, stand aside, stand down, step aside, superannuate, vacate, withdraw ,

   take measures - act on, clear the decks, forearm, get with it, go, guard against, hedge, manoeuvre, play safe, prepare, proceed, provide, provide for, reef, take steps ,

   glee club - choir, chorale, chorus, ensemble ,

   total defeat - shellacking, whitewash, whitewashing, whopping ,

   insignia of branch - badge, bar, chevron, chicken, eagle, epaulette, hash mark, oak leaf, patch, pip, spread eagle, star, stripe, wings ,

   undercoating - coat, coating, colour, colouring, covering, distemper, drier, dye, fresco, ground, medium, paint, painting, pigment, primer,

   sickle-shaped - crescent, horned, lunar, semicircular, sigmoid ,

   deprive of freedom - disenfranchise, dominate, enslave, enthral, hold down, keep down, subject, subjugate, subordinate ,

   stage fright - agitation, apprehensiveness, attack of nerves, bashfulness, buck fever, case of nerves, confusion, coyness, demureness, diffidence, embarrassment, excessive irritability, fear, fearfulness, fidgets,

   fraud - abstraction, acting, actor, affectation, affecter, annexation, appearance, appropriation, artfulness, artifice, attitudinising, ballot-box stuffing, bilk, bluff, bluffer,

   sharpen the wits - catechize, civilize, demonstrate, direct, edify, educate, enlighten, ground, guide, inform, instruct, re-educate, school, set right, show,