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to retreat; to withdraw / to reject; to return (sth) / to decline
HSK 3
to decline / to fall / to drop / to falter / a decline / recession (in economics)
HSK 7-9
to dismiss / to discharge / to fire
HSK 7-9
to recoil; to draw back; to fall back; to retreat
HSK 7-9
to ebb / to go down / to decline
to wane / to vanish gradually
to leave early (before the stipulated finishing time) / to retire early (from one's job)
to retreat
to retire (from society, esp. from politics) / to vanish
to beat back / to repel
to fall back / to go in reverse
to retreat in defeat
to beat back / to repel / to repulse
like rowing a boat upstream, if you stop moving forward you fall back (idiom)
to petition for retirement (old) / to ask for leave to withdraw / to ask to be excused
to retire from office / to resign
to dismiss (from a post) / to expel from school / to order away (servants etc)
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 hinder progress
to try to persuade sb to give up (their job, plans etc)
(economic) recession
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)
to revert (computing) / to return (a package or letter) to the sender
fast-rewind (media player)
to retreat again and again in defeat / to suffer defeat after defeat
to dismiss from a post
withdrawal from the Communist Party, the Communist Youth League, and the Young Pioneers of China
study is like rowing upstream – if you don't keep pushing forward, you fall behind
progress seems like regress (the Book of Dao 道德經|道德经, Chpt. 41)
to escape unscathed; to get through in one piece
to guarantee refund (for faulty or unsatisfactory goods)
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
(neologism c. 2007) (of an official) to retire completely from all leadership positions
to advance or retreat / knowing when to come and when to leave / a sense of propriety
(of an app) to crash


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