withdraw
English
/wɪðˈdɹɔː/
verb
Definitions
- (transitive) To pull (something) back, aside, or away.
- (intransitive) To stop talking to, or interacting with, other people and start thinking thoughts that are not related to what is happening around.
- (transitive) To take back (a comment, etc); retract.
- (transitive) To remove, to stop providing (one's support, etc); to take out of service.
- (transitive) To extract (money from an account).
- (intransitive) To retreat.
- (intransitive) To be in withdrawal from an addictive drug etc.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English withdrawen (draw away, draw back).
Origin
Middle English
withdrawen
Gloss
draw away, draw back
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- antiwithdrawal English
- draught English
- withdraught English
- withdrawable English
- withdrawal English
- withdrawalism English
- withdrawalist English
- withdrawer English
- withdrawest English
- withdraweth English
- withdrawment English
- withdrawen Middle English
- wyþdraȝþ Middle English
- magwithraw Tagalog
- withdraw Tagalog