to retreat; to withdraw; to reject; to return (sth); to decline

to recoil; to draw back; to fall back; to retreat

to fall back; to go in reverse

to decline; to fall; to drop; to falter; a decline; recession (in economics)

(idiom) to escape unscathed; to get through in one piece

to beat back; to repel

to dismiss; to discharge; to fire

to petition for retirement (old); to ask for leave to withdraw; to ask to be excused

to wane; to vanish gradually

to retire from office; to resign

to retire (from society, esp. from politics); to vanish

to leave early (before the stipulated finishing time); to retire early (from one's job)

(economic) recession

withdrawal from the Communist Party, the Communist Youth League, and the Young Pioneers of China

to hinder progress

to ebb; to go down; to decline

to try to persuade sb to withdraw (from a job, candidacy, school etc)

to guarantee refund (for faulty or unsatisfactory goods)

to revert (computing); to return (a package or letter) to the sender

to send away; to dismiss (servants etc); to retire from public life

fast-rewind (media player)

contented; uninterested in wealth and glory

to beat back; to repel; to repulse

to dismiss (from a post); to expel from school; to order away (servants etc)

to remove; to dismiss; to phase out; to return; to refund

(neologism c. 2007) (of an official) to retire completely from all leadership positions

to retreat in defeat

to advance or retreat; knowing when to come and when to leave; a sense of propriety

to drive back (attackers)

(of an app) to crash

to dismiss from a post

to demote; to dismiss

not knowing when to come or leave (idiom); with no sense of propriety

without a retreat route; caught in a dead end; having burned one's bridges

(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 retreat again and again in defeat; to suffer defeat after defeat

progress seems like regress (the Book of Dao 道德經|道德经[Dao4 de2 jing1], Chpt. 41)

hypothyroidism

like rowing a boat upstream, if you stop moving forward you fall back (idiom)

study is like rowing upstream – if you don't keep pushing forward, you fall behind