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Withdraw   /wɪðdrˈɔ/  /wɪθdrˈɔ/   Listen
Withdraw

verb
(past withdrew; past part. withdrawn; pres. part. withdrawing)
1.
Pull back or move away or backward.  Synonyms: draw back, move back, pull away, pull back, recede, retire, retreat.  "The limo pulled away from the curb"  Antonym: advance.
2.
Withdraw from active participation.  Synonym: retire.
3.
Release from something that holds fast, connects, or entangles.  Synonym: disengage.  "Disengage the gears"  Antonym: engage.
4.
Cause to be returned.  Synonyms: call back, call in, recall.  "The manufacturer tried to call back the spoilt yoghurt"
5.
Take back what one has said.  Synonyms: swallow, take back, unsay.
6.
Keep away from others.  Synonyms: seclude, sequester, sequestrate.
7.
Break from a meeting or gathering.  Synonyms: adjourn, retire.  "The men retired to the library"
8.
Retire gracefully.  Synonym: bow out.
9.
Remove (a commodity) from (a supply source).  Synonyms: draw, draw off, take out.  "The doctors drew medical supplies from the hospital's emergency bank"  Antonym: deposit.
10.
Lose interest.  Synonym: retire.
11.
Make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity.  Synonyms: back away, back out, crawfish, crawfish out, pull back, pull in one's horns, retreat.  "He backed out of his earlier promise" , "The aggressive investment company pulled in its horns"
12.
Remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract.  Synonyms: remove, take, take away.  "Remove a wrapper" , "Remove the dirty dishes from the table" , "Take the gun from your pocket" , "This machine withdraws heat from the environment"



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"Withdraw" Quotes from Famous Books



... made to the Lords and Commons, that villeins and land tenants daily withdraw into cities and towns, and a special commission was appointed to hear the ...
— Landholding In England • Joseph Fisher
... upon him, and he raised his own to meet the look frankly, as was his wont. For the first time since he had entered her presence he felt that there was more than a mere disquieting attraction in her steady gaze; there was a strong, resistless fascination, from which he had no power to withdraw himself. Almost unconsciously he resumed his seat, still looking at her, while telling himself with a severe effort that he would look but one instant longer and then turn away. Ten seconds passed, twenty, half a minute, in total ...
— The Witch of Prague • F. Marion Crawford
... shared the general confidence of his troops, and was carried away by it. He says in his report "Finding ourselves unexpectedly confronted by the Federal army, it became a matter of difficulty to withdraw through the mountain with our large trains; at the same time, the country was unfavorable for collecting supplies while in the presence of the enemy's main body, as he was enabled to restrain our foraging-parties by ...
— A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee • John Esten Cooke
... rustic and philosophic virtue is prettily rewarded by the possession of a beautiful heiress, while certain mercenary fops withdraw in signal discomfiture; and that Fielding, at one and twenty, had already passed judgment on that glittering 'tinsel' tribe, is clear enough from his portrait of the "empty gaudy nameless thing," Lord Formal. Lord ...
— Henry Fielding: A Memoir • G. M. Godden
... to withdraw in favour of Wyck," said that youthful worthy. The remainder of the candidates, unable to sustain their own triumphs against such a crushing list, also resigned their claims, and Villiers Wyckliffe was ...
— Australia Revenged • Boomerang


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