退く – Vocabulary details

退しりぞく

Verb (5-dan, く, intransitive)

1. to step back; to move back; to retreat

2. to withdraw (from the presence of a superior); to leave; to exit

3. to resign; to retire; to quit

4. to concede

retreat

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to step back; to retire

to resign from one's post

between the devil and the deep blue sea; (lit.) both advancing and retreating are hell

兵へい士したちは自じ分ぶんたちの陣じん地ちから退しりぞいた。

The soldiers retreated from their positions.

彼かの女じょが通とおれるように彼かれは横よこへ退しりぞいてあげた。

He stepped aside for her to pass.

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