退

Meaning

退 centers on moving backward or away: retreating, withdrawing, or stepping down. The senses of repelling, expelling, or rejecting extend this idea to pushing something else back.

• 引退いんたい
  N3

  retirement

• 退職たいしょく
  N2

  retirement; resignation

• 撤退てったい

  evacuation; withdrawal; revocation; repeal; retreat

• 後退こうたい
  N1

  retreat; falling back; moving backwards; reversing; backing up (of a vehicle); retrogression; retraction

• 退治たいじ
  N1

  extermination; elimination; eradication; destruction; suppression; subjugation; getting rid of; stamping out; wiping out; rooting out

• 衰退すいたい
  N1

  decline; degeneration; decay; waning; ebbing

• 退屈たいくつ
  N3

  tedious; boring; dull; uninteresting; tiresome; monotonous

• 退くどく
  N3

  to step aside; to move (out of the way); to make way

• 退学たいがく
  N2

  dropping out of school; withdrawal from school

• 脱退だったい
  N1

  withdrawal (e.g. from an organization); secession; leaving; pulling out

• 退場たいじょう

  leaving (a hall, meeting, stadium, etc.); exit; walkout

• 退院たいいん
  N4

  leaving hospital; discharge from hospital

• 退社たいしゃ

  resignation; leaving office

• 辞退じたい
  N2

  declining; refusal; nonacceptance; turning down; withdrawal (e.g. of candidacy); pulling out (e.g. of a race); excusing oneself

• 退去たいきょ

  departure; leaving; going away; evacuation

• 退くしりぞく
  N1

  to step back; to move back; to retreat

• 中退ちゅうたい
  N1

  leaving school during a term

• 敗退はいたい

  being defeated; being eliminated (from competition)

• 退役たいえき

  retiring from military service

• 退けるのける
  N3

  to put something out of the way; to move (something, someone) aside

• 退けるどける
  N2

  to put something out of the way; to move (something, someone) aside

• 退却たいきゃく

  retreat; withdrawal; retirement

• 退避たいひ
  N1

  taking refuge; evacuation

• 退任たいにん

  retirement; resignation; stepping down

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