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Definition of withdraw :
1. To retire; to retreat; to quit a company or place; to go away; as, he withdrew from the company.
2. 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.
3. To take back; to recall or retract; as, to withdraw false charges.
Synonyms:
force, fall back, ingest, ask out, pack, contain, postulate, dissociate, assume, subscribe, draw and quarter, impound, slay, confiscate, discriminate, hire, carry, get out, excerpt, take aim, involve, set apart, repeal, admit, trace, puff, read, acquire, learn, drop off, require, dispatch, line, return, shoot, pull out, repress, recollect, recess, fill, necessitate, show, eviscerate, swallow up, leave out, detract, approach, keep apart, visit, off, strike, take off, attract, pick out, reap, film, get off, chicken out, detach, crawfish, fall behind, pull, get, call in, retrograde, recede, carry off, back down, take away, ask, forward, murder, strike out, take back, separate, hit the hay, quarter, lose, conduct, abjure, pull in one's horns, take out, make, immerse, put out, call for, isolate, pull up, move back, swallow, abrogate, ban, take up, assemble, deal, free, kip down, buy food, bow out, attach, bring, hit the sack, cut out, transfer, get down, back off, call up, retreat, go to sleep, distinguish, rescind, pass, lead, tie, go to bed, exclude, leave off, cast, live with, crawfish out, contract, consume, call back, demand, go away, submit, sop up, quash, distract, suck, delineate, rent, divert, disengage, seize, take, take on, get rid of, unsay, get hold of, draw out, omit, introduce, aim, study, disassociate, need, hit, bear away, move out, think, eat up, occupy, adopt, turn in, drag, sequester, select, absorb, echo, bed, shove off, pull off, run, bar, blow, sack out, break up, soak up, consider, hark back, come back, invite out, draw back, engage, exact, convey, drive, guide, repossess, disembowel, bury, have, imbibe, absent, split, pull in, draw off, pull away, take in, purloin, polish off, thread, crawl in, choose, move, reverse, push off, switch, stamp out, look at, charter, unpack, depict, adjourn, remember, get away, direct, retrieve, lease, back away, claim, abstract, except, pull back, bump off, describe, draw away, appropriate, train, call, seclude, bear off, back out, subscribe to, use up, bring back, carry away, suck up, draw in, steal, string, sequestrate
relinquish (part of speech: verb)
capitulate, vacate, disclaim, release, disown, forgo, waive, renounce, forsake, shed, abdicate, defect, desert
extract (part of speech: verb)
excavate, draw, extract, extricate, remove, amputate
resign (part of speech: verb)
reject, accept, terminate, retire
withdraw (part of speech: verb)
retain, recant, suppress, withhold, recall, reserve, keep, hold
depart (part of speech: verb)
embark, go, abandon, quit, flee, depart, decamp, part, exit, leave
give up (part of speech: verb)
resign, give up, stop, surrender, discontinue, relinquish, desist, cease
annul (part of speech: verb)
cancel, delete, neutralize, disavow, disaffirm, dissolve, abolish, efface, eliminate, refute, veto, eradicate, destroy, obliterate, extinguish, dismiss, revoke, deny, invalidate, nullify, repudiate, retract, undo, negate, abnegate, divorce, annul
Usage examples:
- Trembling, she set her basket on the ground and tried to withdraw her hand from her brother's; but the blind boy held it fast. - "The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers", Georg Ebers.
- But when he took her hand she did not withdraw it. - "The Grafters", Francis Lynde.
- I could not withdraw at the last moment. - "A Beautiful Alien", Julia Magruder.