Withdraw \With*draw"\ (w[i^][th]*dr[add]"), v. t. [imp.
Withdrew (-dr[udd]"); p. p. Withdrawn (-dr[add]n"); p.
pr. & vb. n. Withdrawing.] [With against + draw.]
1. To take back or away, as what has been bestowed or
enjoyed; to draw back; to cause to move away or retire;
as, to withdraw aid, favor, capital, or the like.
[1913 Webster]
Impossible it is that God should withdraw his
presence from anything. --Hooker.
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2. To take back; to recall or retract; as, to withdraw false
charges.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
withdrawn
See withdraw
WordNet (r) 2.0
withdraw
v 1: pull back or move away or backward; "The enemy withdrew";
"The limo pulled away from the curb" [syn: retreat, pull
away, draw back, recede, pull back, retire, move
back]
2: withdraw from active participation; "He retired from chess"
[syn: retire]
3: release from something that holds fast, connects, or
entangles; "I want to disengage myself from his
influence"; "disengage the gears" [syn: disengage] [ant:
engage]
4: cause to be returned; "recall the defective auto tires";
"The manufacturer tried to call back the spoilt yoghurt"
[syn: recall, call in, call back]
5: take back what one has said; "He swallowed his words" [syn:
swallow, take back, unsay]
6: keep away from others; "He sequestered himself in his study
to write a book" [syn: seclude, sequester, sequestrate]
7: remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, taking
off, etc. 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" [syn: remove, take,
take away]
8: break from a meeting or gathering; "We adjourned for lunch";
"The men retired to the library" [syn: adjourn, retire]
9: retire gracefully; "He bowed out when he realized he could
no longer handle the demands of the chairmanship" [syn: bow
out]
10: 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" [syn: draw,
take out, draw off] [ant: deposit]
11: lose interest; "he retired from life when his wife died"
[syn: retire]
12: 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" [syn: retreat,
pull back, back out, back away, crawfish, crawfish
out, pull in one's horns]
[also: withdrew, withdrawn]
WordNet (r) 2.0
withdrawn
adj 1: withdrawn from society; seeking solitude; "lived an unsocial
reclusive life" [syn: recluse, reclusive]
2: tending to reserve or introspection; "a quiet indrawn man"
[syn: indrawn]
WordNet (r) 2.0
144 Moby Thesaurus words for "withdrawn":
Laodicean, Olympian, alienated, alone, aloof, anonymous, apart,
apathetic, aseptic, backward, bashful, benumbed, blah, blank,
blase, bored, careless, casual, chilled, chilly, closet, cold,
comatose, companionless, constrained, cool, desensitized, detached,
discreet, disinterested, distant, dull, exclusive, expressionless,
forbidding, friendless, frigid, frosty, guarded, heartless,
hebetudinous, heedless, homeless, hopeless, icy, impassive,
impersonal, in a backwater, in a stupor, inaccessible, incognito,
incurious, indifferent, inmost, innermost, insociable, insouciant,
insular, interior, intimate, introverted, inward, isolated,
kithless, languid, lethargic, listless, lone, lonely, lonesome,
mindless, modest, nonchalant, numb, numbed, offish, out-of-the-way,
out-of-the-world, passive, personal, phlegmatic, pluckless,
private, privy, quarantined, regardless, remote, removed,
repressed, reserved, resigned, restrained, reticent, retired,
retiring, rootless, secluded, seclusive, segregated, separate,
separated, sequestered, shrinking, shut off, single-handed, slack,
sluggish, solitary, solo, soporific, spiritless, spunkless,
standoff, standoffish, stoic, stolid, stupefied, subdued, supine,
suppressed, torpid, unabetted, unaccompanied, unaffable, unaided,
unapproachable, unassisted, unattended, uncaring, uncompanionable,
unconcerned, uncongenial, undemonstrative, unescorted, unexpansive,
unfrequented, ungenial, uninquiring, uninterested, uninvolved,
unmindful, unseconded, unsupported, unvisited
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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