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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 withdrawn; pres.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"

2.

Withdraw from active participation. Synonym: retire.

3.

Release from something that holds fast, connects, or entangles. Synonym: disengage. "Disengage the gears"

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"

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

... withdraw in feigned surprise from the sight of a scene which she had come upon unawares and she would be free of any association with it. For all Little Rivers knew that she was given to random walks and rides. No one would be surprised ...

— Over the Pass • Frederick Palmer

... Plistoanax was a very young man, and entirely under the influence of Cleandrides, whom the ephors had sent to act as his tutor and counsellor because of his tender years, he opened secret negotiations with the latter, who at once, for a bribe, agreed to withdraw the Peloponnesians from Attica. When their army returned and dispersed, the Lacedaemonians were so incensed that they imposed a fine on their king, and condemned Cleandrides, who fled the country, to be put to death. This Cleandrides was the father ...

— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 2 • Various

... wroth that Tristram should interfere with the law; but yet he had granted that boon to his son and could not withdraw. So after a while of thought he said: "Well, I have promised, and so I will perform my promise. Her life is thine; go to the stake and take her. But when thou hast done so I bid thee go forth from this place and show thy face here no more. For thou hast interfered with the law, and hast done ...

— The Story of the Champions of the Round Table • Howard Pyle

... when these auspicious prophets and their successors behold evil to prevail among mankind, they invariably withdraw from among them—as they could not endure to behold ...

— The New Avatar and The Destiny of the Soul - The Findings of Natural Science Reduced to Practical Studies - in Psychology • Jirah D. Buck

... Lord! you must suffer me a little to complain of you! that you too soon withdraw from us a contentment, of which we expected the continuance, because you gave it us so early. 'Tis a revolt without occasion from your Party! where your merits had already raised you to the highest commands: ...

— An English Garner - Critical Essays & Literary Fragments • Edited by Professor Arber and Thomas Seccombe

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