退缩 Definitions — Dong Chinese Dictionary

tuìsuō HSK7

to shrink back

退缩退縮 tuìsuō

to shrink back verb: to shrink back or flinch; to cower or retreat from a difficult or frightening situation; to balk; 他们没有从挑战中退缩。

tāmen méiyǒu cóng tiǎozhàn zhōng tuìsuō.

They didn't back down from the challenge.

Frequency

Movie subtitles: 6.92 per million appears in 3% of films
Written text: 3.74 per million

Details

HSK 3.0: Level 7

Cross-References

Antonym

进展 jìnzhǎn

Sources

Frequency data: SUBTLEX-CH BCC Corpus (BLCU)