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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 bounce (a check) / to return a ticket / ticket refund
HSK 6
to recoil; to draw back; to fall back; to retreat
HSK 7-9
retirement pay / pension
HSK 7-9
(of military personnel or athletes) to retire / (of outdated equipment) to be decommissioned
HSK 7-9
to quit school
HSK 7-9
to return (an item) / to send back / to go back
HSK 7-9
to move aside / to get out of the way / to back down / to concede
HSK 7-9
to dismiss / to discharge / to fire
HSK 7-9
to shrink back; to cower
HSK 7-9
to retreat / to shrink back
HSK 7-9
to decline / to fall / to drop / to falter / a decline / recession (in economics)
HSK 7-9
to refund / refund
to exchange (a purchased item)
tax rebate or refund
to return merchandise / to withdraw a product
to be discharged from military service
to retreat
to fall back / to go in reverse
to beat back / to repel
veteran
to guarantee refund (for faulty or unsatisfactory goods)
to retire from office / to resign
to stand back / to go back (in time) / to yield / to make concessions
to break off an engagement
to reduce a fever
like rowing a boat upstream, if you stop moving forward you fall back (idiom)
(economic) recession
to settle for second best / the next best thing
a way out / a way to retreat / leeway
no room to advance or to retreat (idiom); without any way out of a dilemma / trapped / in an impossible situation
to ebb / to go down / to decline
to withdraw from the fray and live in seclusion / to retire
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
to abdicate
(after a sum has been paid in advance) to refund (in case of overpayment) or be reimbursed (in case of underpayment)
no room to advance or to retreat (idiom); at a loss / in a hopeless situation
not knowing when to come or leave (idiom); with no sense of propriety
to have no alternative (idiom)
free to come and go (idiom) / to have room to maneuver
to try to persuade sb to give up (their job, plans etc)
to retreat again and again in defeat / to suffer defeat after defeat
to withdraw to the second line of duty / to resign from a leading post (and assume an advisory post)
to retire (from society, esp. from politics) / to vanish
backspace (keyboard)
to withdraw
study is like rowing upstream – if you don't keep pushing forward, you fall behind
to petition for retirement (old) / to ask for leave to withdraw / to ask to be excused
contented / uninterested in wealth and glory
to leave early (before the stipulated finishing time) / to retire early (from one's job)
to dismiss from a post
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 demote / to dismiss
lit. to retreat ninety li (idiom) / fig. to shun; to assiduously avoid
to check out of a hotel room
to retreat and defend / to withdraw and maintain one's guard
lit. to beat the return drum (idiom) / fig. to give up / to turn tail
to retreat in defeat
to hinder progress
to beat back / to repel / to repulse
to dismiss (from a post) / to expel from school / to order away (servants etc)
to absent oneself from a meeting / to decline to attend
(of a tide) to ebb or go out
to lapse (or terminate) an insurance
annealing (metallurgy)
variant of 褪色 / also pr. [tui4 shai3]
to advance or retreat, each has its rules (idiom from Zhuangzi); many translations are possible
to send away / to dismiss (servants etc) / to retire from public life
to advance or retreat, each has its rules (idiom from Zhuangzi); many translations are possible
to leave the hospital / (old) (of a monk) to leave the monastery
to retire / to withdraw / to retreat / to step down
(intransitive) to weaken; to decrease; (of a subsidy etc) to be rolled back
to retreat and scatter / to recede; to wane
to retire / to leave one's position
to do less well than before / to make a concession / setback / backward step / leeway / room to maneuver / fallback
to recede / to degenerate / to regress
to be delisted (of a listed stock) / to exit the market
antipyretic (drug to reduce fever, such as sulfanilamide)
to drive back (attackers)
(of an app) to crash
withdrawal from the Communist Party, the Communist Youth League, and the Young Pioneers of China
to thaw (frozen food) / to bring to room temperature
to stop leasing
to refund money
to escape unscathed; to get through in one piece
to cancel (a booking) / to unsubscribe (from a newsletter etc)
recession (in economics)
to withdraw from a group
progress seems like regress (the Book of Dao 道德經|道德经, Chpt. 41)
assumed name of Sun Zhu 孫誅|孙诛 (1711-1778), poet and compiler of Three Hundred Tang Poems 唐詩三百首|唐诗三百首
to withdraw from a competition
to reject (visa application etc) / (commerce) to return to sender / item returned to sender
to shrink back as the time for battle approaches (idiom) / to get cold feet
to decommission
to eject (media player)
no room to advance or to retreat (idiom); without any way out of a dilemma / trapped / in an impossible situation

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