退烧

退燒

tuìshāo

verb #28,060

Meanings

1 to bring down a fever
2 to reduce a fever
3 (of a fever) to break

Characters

to retreat; to withdraw; to reduce

Examples

吃了退烧药之后，他的烧退了。

Chī le tuìshāo yào zhīhòu, tā de shāo tuì le.

After taking fever-reducing medicine, his fever broke.

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?

Tips

usage

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

Stroke Order

退 tuì

烧 shāo