引っ込む

Meaning

1. v5mvi
   to draw back; to sink; to cave in
2. v5mvi
   to be set back (e.g. from a road)
3. v5mvi
   to withdraw (e.g. from the public eye); to retire to (somewhere); to stay indoors; to butt out; to stay out of it

Example sentences

• 無理が通れば道理が引っ込む。

  Might makes right.

• 彼女の家は本通りから引っ込んだ所にある。

  Her house stands back from the road.

• 私は、新居へ移ると共に、私の部屋へ引っ込んで、自分で炊事できるだけの道具ーー土釜、土鍋、七輪の類をととのえた。

  When I moved into my new home, I just brought with me the things that I needed for cooking, an earthen rice cooker, an earthenware pot and an earthen charcoal brazier.