withdraw
Verb (Transitive):
- To remove something concrete or abstract: To take something away, back, or out from a place, position, or supply.
- To take back a statement or promise: To retract or disavow something one has said or committed to.
- To remove oneself from participation or membership: To formally leave or cease involvement in an activity, organization, or situation.
Verb (Intransitive):
- To move back or away: To retreat or pull back from a place, position, or engagement.
- To become detached or secluded: To remove oneself from social contact or interaction.
Transitive Verb:
- The bank allows you to withdraw cash from any ATM.
- The general decided to withdraw his troops from the border.
- I wish to withdraw my earlier comment; it was inaccurate.
Intransitive Verb:
- After the intense debate, the candidate chose to withdraw from the race.
- The army was forced to withdraw under heavy fire.
- He tends to withdraw and read a book when there are too many guests.
"to withdraw into oneself": To become quiet, introspective, and less communicative with others.
- After the loss, she withdrew into herself for several weeks.
"to withdraw support": To cease providing backing, approval, or resources.
- Several key donors threatened to withdraw their support for the project.
Withdrawal (n): The act or process of withdrawing.
- The withdrawal of the application was a surprise.
- She experienced symptoms of withdrawal after stopping the medication.
Withdrawn (adj): Describing someone who is shy, quiet, and inclined to avoid social interaction.
- He became increasingly withdrawn as he grew older.
- Remove: To take something away or off from its position.
- Retreat: To move back or withdraw, especially from danger or a confrontation.
- Retract: To take back a statement or opinion.
- Secede: To formally withdraw from an alliance, federation, or organization.
Withdraw from: To remove oneself or something from a particular situation, place, or activity.
- The country decided to withdraw from the international treaty.
Withdraw into: To retreat into a private mental or physical space.
- Faced with criticism, he withdrew into a shell of silence.
To bow out gracefully: To withdraw from a situation in a dignified and polite manner. (This idiom shares the concept of withdrawal but uses different vocabulary.)
- Seeing the new competition, the veteran player chose to bow out gracefully.
To pull back: To retreat or withdraw from an engagement or commitment. (This is a near-synonymous phrasal expression.)
- The company had to pull back from the deal due to financial constraints.
- remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract
- remove a threat
- remove a wrapper
- Remove the dirty dishes from the table
- take the gun from your pocket
- This machine withdraws heat from the environment
- make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity
- We'll have to crawfish out from meeting with him
- He backed out of his earlier promise
- The aggressive investment company pulled in its horns
- lose interest
- he retired from life when his wife died
- remove (a commodity) from (a supply source)
- She drew $2,000 from the account
- The doctors drew medical supplies from the hospital's emergency bank
- retire gracefully
- He bowed out when he realized he could no longer handle the demands of the chairmanship
- break from a meeting or gathering
- We adjourned for lunch
- The men retired to the library
- keep away from others
- He sequestered himself in his study to write a book
- take back what one has said
- He swallowed his words
- cause to be returned
- recall the defective auto tires
- The manufacturer tried to call back the spoilt yoghurt
- release from something that holds fast, connects, or entangles
- I want to disengage myself from his influence
- disengage the gears
- withdraw from active participation
- He retired from chess
- pull back or move away or backward
- The enemy withdrew
- The limo pulled away from the curb