退烧

退燒

tuìshāo

verb #28,060

Meanings

HSK 4

吃了退烧药之后，他的烧退了。

Chī le tuìshāoyào zhīhòu, tā de shāo tuì le.

After taking fever-reducing medicine, his fever broke.

HSK 4

孩子发烧了，你有什么方法让他退烧？

Háizi fāshāo le, nǐ yǒu shénme fāngfǎ ràng tā tuìshāo?

The child has a fever - do you have any way to bring it down?

usage

退烧药 means 'antipyretic' or fever-reducing medicine. 退烧 can be used both transitively (to reduce a fever) and intransitively (the fever subsides).

退 tuì

烧 shāo