Illustration: On a Japanese riverside worksite, a maintenance crew abandons its working position as rising water begins covering the gravel bank. Two workers carry their pump uphill, another reels in the final hose, and the supervisor gestures for everyone to continue back toward the higher path.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

撤てっ退たい

tettai

to withdraw, to retreat

Example sentences

敗北はいぼくした軍ぐんはその国くにから撤退てったいした。
The defeated army retreated from the country.
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ソ連軍れんぐんはアフガニスタンからの撤退てったいを開始かいしした。
The Soviet troops started to withdraw from Afghanistan.
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水車精米業すいしゃせいまいぎょうから撤退てったい。
He withdrew from the business of rice milling with water wheels.
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Kanji in 撤退

撤remove; withdrawOnテツ
退retreat; withdrawOnタイKunしりぞく・しりぞける・ひく

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