Illustration: At a neighborhood association meeting in Japan, a resident presents a miniature plan for a playground dominated by an absurdly enormous slide. The chairperson firmly returns the model across the table with one hand and raises the other palm in refusal.

JLPT N1verbLevel estimated by Bebop

退しりぞける

shirizokeru

to reject, to dismiss

Example sentences

  1. 彼女かのじょの提案ていあんは退しりぞけられたようだ。

    Her suggestion seems to have been turned down.

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  2. 私わたしはその抗議こうぎを退しりぞけた。

    I dismissed the protest.

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  3. この訴うったえを退しりぞけたくはない。

    I do not want to reject this claim.

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Kanji in 退

  • 退retreat; withdrawOnタイKunしりぞく・しりぞける・ひく

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