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withdraw English

Meaning withdraw meaning

What does withdraw mean?
Definitions in simple English

withdraw Verb

— If you withdraw (something) from somewhere, you take (it) out. The conservatives have withdrawn support from the government. He withdrew $50 from his bank account. After the battle, the soldiers withdrew from the town.

withdraw

— verb (= pull away, pull back) pull back or move away or backward The enemy withdrew The limo pulled away from the curb — verb (= retire) withdraw from active participation He retired from chess — verb (= disengage) release from something that holds fast, connects, or entangles I want to disengage myself from his influence disengage the gears — verb (= recall, call back) cause to be returned recall the defective auto tires The manufacturer tried to call back the spoilt yoghurt — verb (= swallow, take back) take back what one has said He swallowed his words — verb (= sequester) keep away from others He sequestered himself in his study to write a book — verb (= draw) 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 — verb (= bow out) retire gracefully He bowed out when he realized he could no longer handle the demands of the chairmanship — verb (= adjourn, retire) break from a meeting or gathering We adjourned for lunch The men retired to the library — verb (= retire) lose interest he retired from life when his wife died — verb (= remove, take) remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, 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 — verb (= retreat, back out, crawfish, crawfish out) 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

Synonyms withdraw synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as withdraw?

withdraw English » English

retreat retire retract remove pull back draw back take back recede pull out leave extract cancel move back revoke recall draw depart take out take away go away clear recant move away fall back back out secede resign repeal draw off annul abstract unsay take step back shrink separate rescind pull away march off evacuate draw out disengage disappear crawfish out crawfish countermand bow out backpedal back away abolish

Topics withdraw topics

What do people use withdraw to talk about?
Social behavior Relationships Disunity

Set self apart
Social behavior Conflict

War
Physical actions Move Move toward something

Leave
Physical actions Move something Move something in a direction

Take something out of something
Physical actions Arrange Join, attach

Remove, take apart
Language and thought Want

Offer

Conjugation withdraw conjugation

How do you conjugate withdraw?

withdraw · verb

Examples withdraw examples

How do I use withdraw in a sentence?

Simple sentences

She had to withdraw her son from the club.
You may as well withdraw from the club right away.
The Soviet troops started to withdraw from Afghanistan.
She intended to withdraw all her savings from the bank.
Many people use ATMs to withdraw money.
Many people use cash machines to withdraw money.
They were forced to withdraw.
Withdraw your remarks!
I'm gonna withdraw some money real quick.
I'm going to go withdraw some money.
How much money you would like to withdraw?
We can only hope that the government decides to withdraw its troops.
He had to withdraw.

Movie subtitles

Back into the wardrobe! Withdraw, please!
I WILL LEND THE MONEY ON CONDITION THAT HIS EXCELLENCY WITHDRAW. AND PLACE THE GOVERNMENT IN NEW HANDS.
Well, we stand a first-rate chance of having him withdraw his financial support. Now, did you gather that?
Withdraw.
France must not withdraw.
Don't let him withdraw from the Crusade.
Now, permit me to withdraw.
As for you, Mrs. Claypool, I withdraw my offer of marriage.
I withdraw the question.
Withdraw your forces from the lake, Prince.
I'm quite sure that a man of your intelligence will see that there can be but one outcome to this affair. It is necessary that you should withdraw.
As these withdraw, a third group enters in costumes that suggest the delicate tones of early evening.
I withdraw the allusion, Your Honor.
Let us withdraw behind our wall of books, and may her name never be brought up in this house again.
You will withdraw now.
We can't withdraw now, or all our efforts up to this point will have been for nothing.
With your majesty's permission, I wish to withdraw my charges.
If any of you want to withdraw, now's the time.
I sometimes think, Sir Charles that a great government resembles a beautiful woman who, intoxicated with her own beauty is apt to withdraw from a sincere suitor the favors she's always granted.
My plan to withdraw the Light Brigade is perfectly clear to all of you gentlemen.
On receipt of this order you will withdraw the Light Brigade to a point 3 kilometers southwest of its present position.
She is most eager to answer any and all questions from my learned friend. Therefore, I withdraw my objection. Continue with the witness.
But if federal council wishes to withdraw.
You shall immediately withdraw from this temple.
The count does not agree to withdraw in any case.
If you will agree to give my client a match my client will agree to withdraw the suit.
Either this creature is dismissed.. Or I withdraw my son. And bring the forces of the government to bear.
If people's votes puts an incompetent into office it is time to withdraw the vote.
In the face of illogical brutality, I withdraw.
Bravo! On behalf of French womanhood, I withdraw my thanks.
If you would agree to marry him without it, then he could withdraw with honor.
It says that we withdraw our complaint. and that they should let them out.
Well, fine, I withdraw it.
I withdraw them.
If I withdraw now, Ivanhoe wins by default, and you both will live while I shall fall from grace, a degraded knight without fame and without honor.
You may now withdraw to consider your verdict.

News and current affairs

In advanced countries, governments will eventually be forced to reduce spending, and central banks will withdraw from emergency credit provisions and guarantees.
Obama kept his promise to withdraw American forces from Iraq during his first term.
But the US will begin to withdraw troops after 2014, without having defined a political solution in line with its interests.
Would it withdraw in the face of the consequent strategic threat to its three allies - Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Israel - in the region?
They occur when a bank's clients fear that most of their fellow depositors will withdraw their funds.
By guaranteeing that there will be enough resources available for patient clients when they want to withdraw their funds, deposit insurance eliminates the coordination failure.
First, long-term continuation of violence will force Israel to withdraw from the occupied territories.
Since Argentina has been in crisis so often, investors always fear the worst and withdraw funds at the first hint of trouble, provoking an even deeper crisis.
So it is fatuous for Israel's government to insist that the Palestinians disarm completely before the peace process can continue, when Palestinian moderates have no proof that Israel will withdraw to the pre-1967 boundaries.
Would peacekeepers withdraw at one side's insistence (as UN peacekeepers have retreated in other circumstances, including just before the 1967 Six Day War), putting the other side in jeopardy?
In fact, as NATO Ambassador in the 1970's, I had to fly back to testify against legislation in the US Congress to withdraw America's forces from Europe in the middle of the Cold War.
Many of the causes of the current impasse go back to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's decision to withdraw from the Gaza Strip unilaterally, without negotiating with the then-Fatah-controlled Palestinian Authority.
He hopes that with a few months, he can then withdraw American troops to the periphery of Baghdad and leave the policing of the capital to Iraqi forces.
In that case it is better to withdraw support than to allow the same disreputable tactics to be used in two years time when the next parliamentary elections are due.
In June, the Bush administration revealed its plan to withdraw some 12,500 of the 37,000 US soldiers stationed in South Korea by the end of 2005.
Even worse, the country's savers lost trust in their own government, and started to withdraw their deposits.
In an effort to end a tense standoff, the US brokered a deal in which both countries agreed to withdraw their maritime vessels from the area.
Whatever problems the UK faces now pale in comparison to those that would emerge if it were to withdraw from the EU.
Bank runs occur when people, worried that their deposits will not be honored, hastily withdraw their money, thereby creating the very bankruptcy that they feared.
Its recent decision to withdraw its ambassador from Qatar has revealed the gravity of the crisis in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), composed of the Kingdom's most immediate neighbors.
China's first choice for the position, Henry Tang, was forced to withdraw because of private indiscretions and a disgraceful bid to have his wife take the fall for a zoning violation.
Meanwhile, through arrests, threats, and bribery, authorities are forcing villagers to withdraw accounts of abuse and back out of their lawsuits, warning of the dire consequences of cooperating with Chen and the lawyers.

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