to withdraw; to abort; to quit; to log out (computing)

to retire (from the workforce); to go into retirement

to retreat

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

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

to quit school

to shrink back; to cower

(of military personnel or athletes) to retire; (of outdated equipment) to be decommissioned

to be discharged from military service

retirement pension; pension payments received after retirement

to step down; to retire; to withdraw from one's role

a way out; a way to retreat; leeway

to return (an item); to send back; to go back

to fall back; to go in reverse

to check out of a hotel room

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

veteran

to degenerate; atrophy

(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 refund; refund

no room to advance or to retreat (idiom); without any way out of a dilemma; trapped; in an impossible situation

to return merchandise; to withdraw a product

to retire from office; to resign

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 refund money

lit. to beat the return drum (idiom); fig. to give up; to turn tail

to retire from the courtroom; to adjourn

to retreat; to shrink back

to abdicate

to do less well than before; to make a concession; setback; backward step; leeway; room to maneuver; fallback

to move aside; to get out of the way; to back down; to concede

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

(of a tide) to ebb or go out

to return (sth borrowed etc); to send back; to refund; to rebate

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