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Withdrawn   /wɪθdrˈɔn/  /wɪðdrˈɔn/   Listen
Withdrawn

adjective
1.
Withdrawn from society; seeking solitude.  Synonyms: recluse, reclusive.
2.
Tending to reserve or introspection.  Synonym: indrawn.


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 withdrawn; pres.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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"Withdrawn" Quotes from Famous Books



... during which every one was on the tiptoe of expectation. They had all withdrawn to some distance from the tree. Uncle Eb had been obliged to drag Tiger away, and was bathing his cuts out of the camp water-bucket in a shady corner. The dog, recognizing that he was a patient, submitted without a growl ...
— Camp and Trail - A Story of the Maine Woods • Isabel Hornibrook
... this order are more naturally distinct than botanists have recognized. In Clarissa, the petal is cloven into a fringe at the outer edge; in Lychnis, the petal is terminated in two rounded lobes and the fringe withdrawn to the top of the limb; in Scintilla, the petal is divided into two sharp lobes, without any fringe of the limb; and in Mica, the minute and scarcely visible flowers have simple and far separate petals. ...
— Proserpina, Volume 1 - Studies Of Wayside Flowers • John Ruskin
... time the 164th Brigade was withdrawn from Montmorillon, leaving the 311th to commence its active and intensive course of ...
— The Delta of the Triple Elevens - The History of Battery D, 311th Field Artillery US Army, - American Expeditionary Forces • William Elmer Bachman
... a glance upon thee, cast a smile upon thee, let fall though it be but one drop of its savor upon thy spirit; yea, though it stays but one moment with thee? Oh, then, the day of grace is not past, the gate of heaven is not shut, nor God's heart withdrawn from thee as yet. Take heed therefore, and beware that thou make much of the heavenly gift and of that good word of God of which he has ...
— The Riches of Bunyan • Jeremiah Rev. Chaplin
... work on the Colours of Animals. He there reproduces some of the illustrations which occur in Mr. and Mrs. Peckham's work on Sexual Selection in Spiders, and furnishes appropriate descriptions. Therefore, while retaining the illustrations, I have withdrawn my ...
— Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) • George John Romanes


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