withdraw
IPA: wɪðdrˈɔ
noun
- An act of drawing back or removing; a removal, a withdrawal or withdrawing.
- (law) 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”)
verb
- (transitive)
- To draw or pull (something) away or back from its original position or situation.
- 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.
- (archaic) To draw or pull (a bolt, curtain, veil, or other object) aside.
- To take away or take back (something previously given or permitted); to remove, to retract.
- To cause or help (someone) to stop taking an addictive drug or substance; to dry out.
- To take (one's eyes) off something; to look away.
- (figuratively)
- To disregard (something) as belonging to a certain group.
- To remove (a topic) from discussion or inquiry.
- To stop (a course of action, proceedings, etc.)
- To take back (a comment, something written, etc.); to recant, to retract.
- (archaic or obsolete) To distract or divert (someone) from a course of action, a goal, etc.
- (banking, finance) To extract (money) from a bank account or other financial deposit.
- (intransitive)
- Chiefly followed by from: to leave a place, someone's presence, etc., to go to another room or place.
- (specifically, military) Of soldiers: to leave a battle or position where they are stationed; to retreat.
- Chiefly followed by from: to stop taking part in some activity; also, to remove oneself from the company of others, from publicity, etc.
- To stop talking to or interacting with other people and start thinking thoughts not related to what is happening.
- To stop taking an addictive drug or substance; to undergo withdrawal.
- Of a man: to remove the penis from a partner's body orifice before ejaculation; to engage in coitus interruptus.
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Examples of "withdraw" in Sentences
- Check (Paul Ryan); forcing the US to withdraw from the UN?
- We'll see as our forces withdraw from the cities of Iraq that we never should have started that war either.
- It suggests a much more active decision to end the treaty and is much closer to the term breach than the term withdraw.
- OH OH I forget he couldn't withdraw from a republican committee he had his hand in the pot to "withdraw" some of the coffers MAYBE
- Although Nothing's protagonist, Pierre, seems to withdraw from the world, he is not necessarily a nihilist (one who believes in nothing).
- However, a nihilist does not withdraw from the world and shout his beliefs from the treetops, nor does he care whether or not he can convert others to his philosophy.
- Recent polling shows Hickenlooper maintaining a consistent lead over Tancredo, with Maes -- the beleaguered GOP nominee who rejected calls to withdraw from the race -- dropping down to the single-digits.
- There is no mention in the letter that Netanyahu should abide by commitments of previous Israeli governments to freeze the settlement drive nor is there any mention of the five UN Security Council resolutions and the 2004 World Court decision calling on Israel to withdraw from the already-existing settlements.
- In an apparent effort to undermine administration's efforts, Democratic Senators Barbara Boxer and Robert Casey joined with Republican Senators Johnny Isakson and Richard Burr in preparing a letter to President Obama that criticizes Abbas 'threat to withdraw from the talks while completely ignoring the threatened resumption of Netanyahu's illegal colonization drive that would prompt it.
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