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HSK
to withdraw / to abort / to quit / to log out (computing)
HSK 3
to retire (from the workforce); to go into retirement
HSK 3
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to retreat; to withdraw / to reject; to return (sth) / to decline
HSK 3
to bounce (a check) / to return a ticket / ticket refund
HSK 6
to decline / to fall / to drop / to falter / a decline / recession (in economics)
HSK 7-9
(of military personnel or athletes) to retire / (of outdated equipment) to be decommissioned
HSK 7-9
to dismiss / to discharge / to fire
HSK 7-9
to quit school
HSK 7-9
to return (an item) / to send back / to go back
HSK 7-9
to shrink back; to cower
HSK 7-9
to recoil; to draw back; to fall back; to retreat
HSK 7-9
to retreat / to shrink back
HSK 7-9
to move aside / to get out of the way / to back down / to concede
HSK 7-9
retirement pay / pension
HSK 7-9
to be delisted (of a listed stock) / to exit the market
to return merchandise / to withdraw a product
to withdraw from a political party
to return (sth borrowed etc); to send back; to refund; to rebate
to fall back / to go in reverse
to be discharged from military service
to guarantee refund (for faulty or unsatisfactory goods)
to leave a place where some event is taking place / (of an actor) to exit / (sports) to leave the field / (of an audience) to leave
to refund money
to refund / refund
to wane / to vanish gradually
to retreat and defend / to withdraw and maintain one's guard
to leave early (before the stipulated finishing time) / to retire early (from one's job)
to try to persuade sb to give up (their job, plans etc)
to stand back / to go back (in time) / to yield / to make concessions
to advance or retreat / knowing when to come and when to leave / a sense of propriety
tax rebate or refund
to retire (from society, esp. from politics) / to vanish
to degenerate / atrophy
to abdicate
(of a tide) to ebb or go out
lit. to retreat ninety li (idiom) / fig. to shun; to assiduously avoid
to beat back / to repel
to withdraw from the fray and live in seclusion / to retire
to retreat in defeat
annealing (metallurgy)
to reduce a fever
to lapse (or terminate) an insurance
to break off an engagement
a way out / a way to retreat / leeway
to beat back / to repel / to repulse
to recede / to degenerate / to regress
no room to advance or to retreat (idiom); without any way out of a dilemma / trapped / in an impossible situation
to reduce a fever
to cancel (a booking) / to unsubscribe (from a newsletter etc)
like rowing a boat upstream, if you stop moving forward you fall back (idiom)
to check out of a hotel room
to do less well than before / to make a concession / setback / backward step / leeway / room to maneuver / fallback
to withdraw
to petition for retirement (old) / to ask for leave to withdraw / to ask to be excused
lit. to sound out the difficulties and retreat to avoid defeat (idiom) / fig. to back out of an awkward situation; to get out on finding out what it's really like
no room to advance or to retreat (idiom); without any way out of a dilemma / trapped / in an impossible situation
better to go home and weave a net than to stand by the pond longing for fish (idiom) / one should take practical steps to achieve one's aim
lit. to beat the return drum (idiom) / fig. to give up / to turn tail
to exchange (a purchased item)
to retire from office / to resign
no room to advance or to retreat (idiom); at a loss / in a hopeless situation
to retire from the courtroom / to adjourn
(intransitive) to weaken; to decrease; (of a subsidy etc) to be rolled back
to dismiss (from a post) / to expel from school / to order away (servants etc)
to retreat
to send away / to dismiss (servants etc) / to retire from public life
not knowing when to come or leave (idiom); with no sense of propriety
to absent oneself from a meeting / to decline to attend
variant of 褪色 / also pr. [tui4 shai3]
to hinder progress
to retire / to withdraw / to retreat / to step down
to leave the hospital / (old) (of a monk) to leave the monastery
(of an app) to crash
(economic) recession
to retreat and scatter / to recede; to wane
to retire / to leave one's position
antipyretic (drug to reduce fever, such as sulfanilamide)
contented / uninterested in wealth and glory
to demote / to dismiss
without a retreat route / caught in a dead end / having burned one's bridges
to drive back (attackers)
veteran
to revert (computing) / to return (a package or letter) to the sender
to return a product for another item
to pull out of the competition
to retreat again and again in defeat / to suffer defeat after defeat
restoring agricultural land to forest
(after a sum has been paid in advance) to refund (in case of overpayment) or be reimbursed (in case of underpayment)
backspace (keyboard)
to reject (visa application etc) / (commerce) to return to sender / item returned to sender
to dismiss from a post
recession (in economics)
to withdraw to the second line of duty / to resign from a leading post (and assume an advisory post)
study is like rowing upstream – if you don't keep pushing forward, you fall behind
to shrink back as the time for battle approaches (idiom) / to get cold feet
can't advance or retreat (idiom); no room for maneuver / stalled / in a dilemma / stuck in a difficult position
progress seems like regress (the Book of Dao 道德經|道德经, Chpt. 41)
to stop leasing
degenerative / retrograde

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