Vocabulary

後退

retreat; falling back; moving backwards; reversing; backing up (of a vehicle); retrogression

noun suru-verb vi
N1 freq #5

Example sentences

His hair is receding from his forehead.

Not to advance is to go back.

Social conditions are going backward rather than forward.

We recoiled from the enemy's offensive.

He argued that the new policy was bound to drive the economy into recession.

The policy is bound to drive the economy into further recession.