withdraw
with·draw (--drô′)
transitive verb -·drew′, -·drawn′, -·draw′·ing
- to take back or draw back; remove
- to remove from use, consideration, etc.
- to retract or recall (a statement, etc.)
intransitive verb
- to move back; go away; retreat
- to remove oneself (from an organization, activity, society, etc.)
- Psychiatry to retreat from reality, as in schizophrenia
- in parliamentary procedure, to retract a motion, statement, etc.
withdraw
v.
To retire
depart, draw back, take leave; see retire 1, 3, retreat 1, 2.To remove from use or circulation
revoke, rescind, abolish, repeal, annul, abrogate, veto, suppress, repress, retire, stamp out, declare illegal, ban, bar, nullify, repudiate, reverse, retract, throw overboard, invalidate, quash, dissolve. Antonyms
introduce, put on the record, establish*. To remove
take away, draw away, pull out, pull back, switch; see also eliminate 1, remove 1.
Object
- troop: While the motion is unlikely to receive a majority vote, it could increase the pressure on Blair to withdraw British troops from Iraq.
- cash: You will need your PIN to use your credit card to withdraw cash from a cash machine.
- authorisation: If this occurred the authorities would withdraw authorisation and the property would be closed for use as a children's home.
- amendment: I beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment.
- money: Branch - you can withdraw money over the counter at any of our branches.
- whip: I called it a vindictive, mechanical way they withdrew the whip from Len Hurst.
Preposition: on
- eve: So it was a potential hazard when Richard Dreyfus withdrew almost on the eve of the previews, just three weeks before opening night.
Adjective complement
- due: The line-up was only finalized seven weeks ago when original crew member Alex Partridge was withdrawn due to a collapsed lung.
Modifying Another Word
- temporarily: Sadly, as of today, 1 st March 2005, they have had to be temporarily withdrawn pending permission to display them.
- voluntarily: Action Holland and Barrett have been contacted about these surveillance results and have voluntarily withdrawn the affected batch of peanut butter from sale.
Used with why or when
- when: Credits are deposited centrally in a time bank and withdrawn when needed.
Present participle complement
- pend: Sadly, as of today, 1 st March 2005, they have had to be temporarily withdrawn pending permission to display them.
Preposition: in
- favor: Now I find that this support will be withdrawn in favor of Blackboard.
Preposition: from
- npt: North Korea then expelled IAEA officials in December 2002 and announced its intention to withdraw from the NPT in January 2003.
- circulation: Nor were the coins he issued withdrawn from circulation, which is why they are still so common that we all can afford one.
- contest: Mr Young said no pressure had been put on him to withdraw from the contest.
- contract: There are some circumstances where a buyer is legally entitled to withdraw from a contract without financial penalty.
- meeting: The subcommittee may also require the Chairperson to withdraw from the meeting whilst discussing an appeal against a Chairperson's ruling.
- sale: When leaded was withdrawn from general sale the engineered conversion was the only ' known quantity ' solution.
Preposition: for
- overhaul: This was shortly before Primrose was withdrawn for an overhaul, carried out by the railroad's Loco Department.
The government may tomorrow withdraw every one of their troopsfrom Ireland.Ireland will be defended by her armed sons from foreign invasion, and for that purpose the armed Catholics in the south will be only too glad to join arms with the armed Protestant Ulsterman. Is it too muchtohope that out of thissituation a result mayspring that will be good not merely for the Empire but for the future welfare and integrity of the Irish nation?
Browse dictionary entries near withdraw
- withal
- with that
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- with-it
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- witenagemot
- wite
- witching
- witches' Sabbath
- witches'-broom
- withdrawal
- withdrawn
- withe
- withe rod
- wither
- withered
- withering
- witherite
- withers
- withershins
