withdraw

Meaning

Verb

1. To draw or pull (something) away or back from its original position or situation.
2. To draw or pull (something) away or back from its original position or situation.
3. To draw or pull (something) away or back from its original position or situation.
4. To take away or take back (something previously given or permitted); to remove, to retract.
5. To cause or help (someone) to stop taking an addictive drug or substance; to dry out.
6. To take (one's eyes) off something; to look away.
7. To disregard (something) as belonging to a certain group.
8. To remove (a topic) from discussion or inquiry.
9. To stop (a course of action, proceedings, etc.)
10. To take back (a comment, something written, etc.); to recant, to retract.
11. To distract or divert (someone) from a course of action, a goal, etc.
12. To extract (money) from a bank account or other financial deposit.
13. Chiefly followed by from: to leave a place, someone's presence, etc., to go to another room or place.
14. Chiefly followed by from: to leave a place, someone's presence, etc., to go to another room or place.
15. Chiefly followed by from: to stop taking part in some activity; also, to remove oneself from the company of others, from publicity, etc.
16. To stop talking to or interacting with other people and start thinking thoughts not related to what is happening.
17. To stop taking an addictive drug or substance; to undergo withdrawal.
18. Of a man: to remove the penis from a partner's body orifice before ejaculation; to engage in coitus interruptus.

Noun

1. (obsolete) An act of drawing back or removing; a removal, a withdrawal or withdrawing.
2. (obsolete) 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”)

Concepts

withdraw

retreat

retire

retract

remove

pull back

draw back

take back

pull out

recede

cancel

extract

leave

move back

revoke

recall

draw

depart

take out

go away

take away

clear

move away

recant

back out

fall back

annul

repeal

secede

abstract

draw off

resign

disappear

march off

countermand

rescind

separate

abolish

evacuate

draw out

shrink

take

unsay

back away

crawfish

crawfish out

disengage

pull away

bow out

step back

backpedal

pull

renege on

retrieve

die

expire

pass away

hesitate

yield

drop

go back on

abandon

reduce

contract

cease

stop

move backwards

call off

back off

devalue

inflate

break away

desert

fall off

escape

run away

draw in

recover

seclude

sequester

sequestrate

swallow

pull in one’s horns

call back

call in

adjourn

move

back

back down

shrink from

collect

move off

decline

elicit

glean

reprint

worm

delve

dig up

extricate

unearth

forbid

invalidate

nullify

overrule

overturn

quash

reverse

become separate

go away from

go separate ways

unsheath

drop out

abrogate

take aside

deduct

clear out

take refuge

vacate

concede

lower

pull down

appear before

draw something back

huddle

shorten

give up

halt

wean

budge

inch

stir

quit

secede from

go back

backward

dodge

evade

wipe out

draw money

make a withdrawal

cash in

demonetise

demonetize

forsake

deny

disclaim

schismatize

keep back

refrain

release

duck

refuse

remit

yank

absorb

bend

backslide

be told off

separate oneself

search

approach

come closer

get up

rise

stand up

place back

stand back

leave something

tear off

uproot

stand down

abstraction

draw-off

drawer

extraction

pumping

unwatering

rejection

discount

to take off

flinch from

administer

admit

adopt

assume

drink

grab

help

pick up

take up

recapture

resume

back up

get out

resile

forswear

renege

unsanctify

pull off

cringe

ebb away

excuse

fiddle

retrograde

remove from

decease

jerk away

pull back suddenly

loosen

desist

fire

shoot

take in

throw

pull in

recoil

give back

regress

retrogress

return

send back

flee

cancellation

take from

avoid

break camp

disperse

chop off

pare off

carry

haul

disembarrass

disembroil

clean

hull

shell

strip

droop

get a lift

subside

take down

detach

Hyphenated as

with‧draw

Pronounced as (IPA)

/wɪðˈdɹɔː/

Etymology

PIE word
*wi
From Middle English withdrawen, withdrauen (“to depart, leave, move away; (reflexive) to go away; (reflexive) to leave someone’s service; (often reflexive) to draw back or retreat (from a battlefield or dangerous place), withdraw; to abandon, desert; to go, go forth; to move; of the sea, water, etc.: to (cause to) ebb, recede, subside; to disappear; to slacken, wane; (often reflexive) to cease, stop; to desist, refrain; (reflexive) to go back on, recant; to avoid, eschew; to bring under control, contain, suppress; to curb, curtail; to delay, put off; to demur, refuse; to carry or take away, deprive of, remove; to contract, draw away or in, retract; to deny, refuse; to revoke; to withhold; to divert; to separate; to adopt, borrow, imitate”) [and other forms], from with- (prefix meaning ‘away; back’) + drawen, drauen (“to drag, pull, tow, tug, draw [and other senses]”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ- (“to drag, pull; to run”)); see further at with- and draw. The English word is analysable as with- + draw.