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to retire (from the workforce); to go into retirement
HSK 3
to withdraw / to abort / to quit / to log out (computing)
HSK 3
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to retreat; to withdraw / to reject; to return (sth) / to decline
HSK 3
to refund / refund
to stand back / to go back (in time) / to yield / to make concessions
to recoil; to draw back; to fall back; to retreat
HSK 7-9
to beat back / to repel
to advance or retreat / knowing when to come and when to leave / a sense of propriety
to shrink back; to cower
HSK 7-9
to shrink back as the time for battle approaches (idiom) / to get cold feet
to move aside / to get out of the way / to back down / to concede
HSK 7-9
retirement pension; pension payments received after retirement
HSK 7-9
to return (an item) / to send back / to go back
HSK 7-9
(of military personnel or athletes) to retire / (of outdated equipment) to be decommissioned
HSK 7-9
to try to persuade sb to give up (their job, plans etc)
to wane / to vanish gradually
to dismiss / to discharge / to fire
HSK 7-9
to escape unscathed; to get through in one piece
to fall back / to go in reverse
(economic) recession
to return a product for another item
to retreat
free to come and go (idiom) / to have room to maneuver
to reduce a fever
to retreat / to shrink back
HSK 7-9
to ebb / to go down / to decline
to return (sth borrowed etc); to send back; to refund; to rebate
to withdraw from a political party
to guarantee refund or replacement (of faulty or unsatisfactory goods)
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
no room to advance or to retreat (idiom); without any way out of a dilemma / trapped / in an impossible situation
study is like rowing upstream – if you don't keep pushing forward, you fall behind
veteran
to degenerate / atrophy
like rowing a boat upstream, if you stop moving forward you fall back (idiom)
tax rebate or refund
to eject (media player)
to beat back / to repel / to repulse
antipyretic (drug to reduce fever, such as sulfanilamide)
restoring agricultural land to forest
to thaw (frozen food) / to bring to room temperature
withdrawal from the Communist Party, the Communist Youth League, and the Young Pioneers of China
consultant who breaks up sb's extramarital relationship for a fee
to retreat again and again in defeat / to suffer defeat after defeat
recession (in economics)
(intransitive) to weaken; to decrease; (of a subsidy etc) to be rolled back
to retire (from society, esp. from politics) / to vanish
to break off an engagement
to return merchandise / to withdraw a product
to decline / to fall / to drop / to falter / a decline / recession (in economics)
HSK 7-9
to exchange (a purchased item)
to cancel (a booking) / to unsubscribe (from a newsletter etc)
to bounce (a check) / to return a ticket / ticket refund
HSK 6
to withdraw
to withdraw to the second line of duty / to resign from a leading post (and assume an advisory post)
to withdraw from the fray and live in seclusion / to retire
to revert (computing) / to return (a package or letter) to the sender
to retire from office / to resign
fast-rewind (media player)
to retreat in defeat
to settle for second best / the next best thing
degenerative / retrograde
to leave the hospital / (old) (of a monk) to leave the monastery
(after a sum has been paid in advance) to refund (in case of overpayment) or be reimbursed (in case of underpayment)
Veterans' Day
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 stop leasing
lit. to retreat ninety li (idiom) / fig. to shun; to assiduously avoid
(of an app) to crash
to withdraw from a competition
annealing (metallurgy)
to refund money
to drive back (attackers)
no room to advance or to retreat (idiom); without any way out of a dilemma / trapped / in an impossible situation
to quit school
HSK 7-9
to dismiss (from a post) / to expel from school / to order away (servants etc)
to abdicate
(of a public figure, streamer, influencer etc) to quit social media
to retire from the courtroom / to adjourn
to retire / to leave one's position
lit. to beat the return drum (idiom) / fig. to give up / to turn tail
to leave early (before the stipulated finishing time) / to retire early (from one's job)
(neologism c. 2007) (of an official) to retire completely from all leadership positions
Retreat and Reflection Garden in Tongli, Jiangsu
to withdraw from a group
to have no alternative (idiom)
to send away / to dismiss (servants etc) / to retire from public life
to demote / to dismiss
to advance or retreat, each has its rules (idiom from Zhuangzi); many translations are possible
without a retreat route / caught in a dead end / having burned one's bridges
to reject (visa application etc) / (commerce) to return to sender / item returned to sender
to divert water / to drain
to petition for retirement (old) / to ask for leave to withdraw / to ask to be excused
to check out of a hotel room
to recede / to degenerate / to regress
to withdraw from an election / to drop out of an elective course
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
to be discharged from military service
to lapse (or terminate) an insurance

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