withdraw

/wɪðˈdɹɔː/

verb 18
noun 2
forms 8

verb18

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to move someone or something back from the place or position they were in
- VVhy vvithdravvest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosome. — 1653
To extract (money) from a bank account or other financial deposit.
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To remove (someone or (reflexive, archaic) oneself) from a position or situation; specifically (military), to remove (soldiers) from a battle or position where they are stationed.
- Thou neuer vvithdrevvst thy selfe and vvert solitarie, but my Spyrite vvas reproouing and disputing vvith thee. — 1593
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Chiefly followed by from: to leave a place, someone's presence, etc., to go to another room or place.
- VVell daughter, and you gentlevvomen all, / VVithdravv into a chamber by your selues, / And vvhen I send for you come hither masked: […] — 1598
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Of soldiers: to leave a battle or position where they are stationed; to retreat.
- King A horse, a horse, my kingdome for a horse. / [Sir William] Cates[by]. VVithdravv my lord, Ile helpe you to a horse. — 1593
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To take away or take back (something previously given or permitted); to remove, to retract.
- I wyl be his father, and he shal be my sonne. And I wyl not withdrawe my mercy from him, as I haue withdrawen it frõ him that was before the[e]: […] — 1535
(figurative) To remove (a topic) from discussion or inquiry.
(figurative) To stop (a course of action, proceedings, etc.)
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(figurative) To take back (a comment, something written, etc.); to recant, to retract.
- to withdraw false charges
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Chiefly followed by from: to stop taking part in some activity; also, to remove oneself from the company of others, from publicity, etc.
- I vvill vvithdravv from your Company; retire to the Shades, and perform my Penance of a Thousand Years. — 1697
To stop talking to or interacting with other people and start thinking thoughts not related to what is happening.
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To take (one's eyes) off something; to look away.
- The lady looked up; her eyes met those of Mr. Watkins Tottle. She withdrew them in a sweet confusion, and Watkins Tottle did the same—the confusion was mutual. — 1836
To cause or help (someone) to stop taking an addictive drug or substance; to dry out.
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To stop taking an addictive drug or substance; to undergo withdrawal.
- Simon had tried to rob a bank while he was withdrawing, but he had been forced to surrender to the police after they had fired several volleys at him. — 1992
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Of a man: to remove the penis from a partner's body orifice before ejaculation; to engage in coitus interruptus.
- Like a fool, I agreed to let him make love to me as long as he withdrew before he ejaculated and he promised he would, but then he didn't. — 2002
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(figurative) To disregard (something) as belonging to a certain group.
- One [poem] by Hercules Rollock on the marriage of Anne of Denmark is better, and equal, a few names withdrawn, to any of the contemporaneous poetry of France. — 1837
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(no longer used) To draw or pull (a bolt, curtain, veil, or other object) aside.
- [S]he was in no mood for sleep; so, putting her light upon the table and withdrawing the little window curtain, she gazed out pensively at the wild night sky. — 1841
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(no longer used) To distract or divert (someone) from a course of action, a goal, etc.
- I doe not flie, but aduantagious care, / VVith-drevv me from the ods of multitude, […] — 1602

noun2

(no longer used) An act of drawing back or removing; a removal, a withdrawal or withdrawing.
(no longer used) Synonym of withdraught (“a dismissal of a lawsuit with prejudice based on a plaintiff's withdrawal of the suit; a retraxit; also, a fine imposed on a plaintiff for such a dismissal”).

forms

withdrawed · withdrew · withdrewst · withdrawn · withdrawing · withdraweth · withdraws · withdrawest