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Definition: Withdraw |
WithdrawVerb1. Pull back or move away or backward; "The enemy withdrew"; "The limo pulled away from the curb". 2. Withdraw from active participation: "He retired from chess". 3. Release from something that holds fast. connects, or entangles; "I want to disengage myself from his influence"; "disengage the gears". 4. Cause to be returned; "recall the defective auto tires"; The manufacturer tried to call back the spoilt yoghurt". 5. Take back what one has said; "He swallowed his words". 6. Keep away from others; "He sequestered himself in his study to write a book". 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". 8. Break from a meeting or gathering; "We adjourned for lunch"; "The men retired to the library". 9. Retire gracefully; "He bowed out when he realized he could no longer handle the demands of the chairmanship". 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". 11. : lose interest; "he retired from life when his wife died". 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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "withdraw" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | To draw off; to take out supports. (references) |
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Synonyms: WithdrawSynonyms: adjourn (v), back away (v), back out (v), bow out (v), call back (v), call in (v), crawfish (v), crawfish out (v), disengage (v), draw (v), draw back (v), draw off (v), move back (v), pull away (v), pull back (v), pull in one's horns (v), recall (v), recede (v), remove (v), retire (v), retreat (v), seclude (v), sequester (v), sequestrate (v), swallow (v), take (v), take away (v), take back (v), take out (v), unsay (v). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: drop-ins (law). |
| Antonyms: deposit (v), engage (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Absence | Withdraw, make oneself scarce, vacate; go away. |
Departure | Leave a place, quit, vacate, evacuate, abandon; go off the stage, make one's exit; retire, withdraw, remove; vamoose, vamose; go one's way, go along, go from home; take flight, take wing; spring, fly, flit, wing one's flight; fly away, whip away; embark; go on board, go aboard; set sail' put to sea, go to sea; sail, take ship; hoist blue Peter; get under way, weigh anchor; strike tents, decamp; walk one's chalks, cut one's stick; take leave; say good bye, bid goodbye; Noun: disappear; abscond; (avoid); entrain; inspan. |
Dislike | Shun, avoid; eschew; withdraw from, shrink from, recoil from; not be able to bear, not be able to abide, not be able to endure; shrug the shoulders at, shudder at, turn up the nose at, look askance at; make a mouth, make a wry face, make a grimace; make faces. |
Money | Circulate, put in circulation; withdraw from circulation. |
Nonaddition Subtraction | Verb: subduct, subtract; deduct, deduce; bate, retrench; remove, withdraw, take from, take away; detract. |
Recession | Verb: recede, go, move back, move from, retire; withdraw, shrink, back off; come away, move away, back away, go away, get away, drift away; depart; retreat; move off, stand off, sheer off; fall back, stand aside; run away; (avoid). |
Regression | Verb: recede, regrade, return, revert, retreat, retire; retrograde, retrocede; back out; back down; balk; crawfish, crawl; withdraw; rebound; go back, come back, turn back, hark back, draw back, fall back, get back, put back, run back; lose ground; fall astern, drop astern; backwater, put about; backtrack, take the back track; veer round; double, wheel, countermarch; ebb, regurgitate; jib, shrink, shy. |
Relinquishment | Verb: relinquish, give up, abandon, desert, forsake, leave in the lurch; go back on; depart from, secede from, withdraw from; back out of; leave, quit, take leave of, bid a long farewell; vacate; (resign). |
Tergiversation | Verb: change one's mind, change one's intention, change one's purpose, change one's note; abjure, renounce; withdraw from; (relinquish); waver, vacillate; wheel round, turn round, veer round; turn a pirouette; go over from one side to another, pass from one side to another, change from one side to another, skip from one side to another; go to the rightabout; box the compass, shift one's ground, go upon another tack. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | Either I get a formal response to my request for the same lunch allowance as Henry or I shall withdraw my labor (Drop the Dead Donkey; writing credit: Andy Hamilton; Guy Jenkin) I withdraw my question (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Council will withdraw the expression (A Matter of Life and Death; writing credit: Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Ambition Withdraw (2003) | |
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![]() | Unable to withdraw her attention from the kneeling figure. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | The racist dog policemen must withdraw immediately from our communities, cease their wanton murder and brutality ... Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | The world community has demanded that Portugal and Gulf Oil withdraw from Southern Africa : this is a part of the reason why ... Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| Author | Quotation |
Baltasar Gracian | Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one. |
Epicurus | The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd. |
Lord Byron | To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all. |
Miguel De Cervantes | To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope. |
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John Locke | 1690 | The father's empire then ceases, and he can from thence forwards no more dispose of the liberty of his son, than that of any other man: and it must be far from an absolute or perpetual jurisdiction, from which a man may withdraw himself, having license from divine authority to leave father and mother, and cleave to his wife. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Each Government represented on the Commission shall have the right to withdraw therefrom upon twelve months, notice filed with the Commission and confirmed in the course of the sixth month after the date of the original notice. (reference) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The combatants who were posted there, had to withdraw. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Evil company on earth is so noxious that even the plants, as if by instinct, withdraw from the company of whatsoever is deadly or hurtful to them |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | He is, my lord, and safe in Leicester town, Whither, if it please you, we may now withdraw us. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | Possibly we may withdraw from it, but never change its nature |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | She began to withdraw from society. (references) | |
Most try to hide the problem as long as possible, so they withdraw from friends and family. (references) | ||
Some may react by sliding quietly into depression and withdraw from contact with other people. (references) | ||
Business | Media observers maintain, however, that the ability to grant or withdraw broadcast licenses leads to self-censorship in some broadcast media. (references) | |
After the breakup of China Telecom and the order to have the military to withdraw from commercial operations, Great Wall Telecom and China Unicom discussed merging. (references) | ||
So far, the vast majority are either debit cards that withdraw money from a bank account, or are credit cards that require security deposits that nearly match the credit limits on the cards. (references) | ||
Children | El Salvador | Rural areas fell short of providing a 9th grade education to all potential students, in part because of a lack of resources and in part because many rural parents withdraw their children from school by the 6th grade to work. (references) |
Civil Liberties | United Kingdom | All parents have the right to withdraw a child from religious education, but the schools must approve this request. (references) |
Indonesia | Media and human rights NGO's criticized the calls to withdraw the books from circulation as a violation of freedom of expression. (references) | |
Economic History | Liberia | Banks charge a fee to deposit money, withdraw money, or cash a check. (references) |
Denmark | Once a project is financially consolidated and running smoothly, the funds withdraw from it. (references) | |
Lebanon | With the U.S. Marines looking ready to withdraw, Syria and Muslim groups stepped up pressure on Gemayal. (references) | |
Human Rights | Pakistan | They also had to agree to withdraw from politics while in exile. (references) |
Ukraine | Criminal groups routinely used intimidation to induce victims and witnesses to withdraw or change their testimony. (references) | |
Tanzania | Magistrates occasionally accepted bribes to determine guilt or innocence, pass sentences, withdraw charges, or decide appeals. (references) | |
Minorities | Pakistan | Local observers asserted that the alleged rapists have been attempting to pressure the victims' families to withdraw the case. (references) |
Moldova | On October 18, Parliament passed an amendment to the Citizenship Law permitting the President to withdraw citizenship from any individual without the right to a court hearing. (references) | |
Political Economy | Sudan | Girls also withdraw from school early due to family obligations or early marriage. (references) |
Political Rights | Singapore | The PAP has used the threat to withdraw benefits as a means of assuring popular support. (references) |
Egypt | The Political Parties Committee also may withdraw recognition from existing political parties. (references) | |
Vietnam | Opposition by National Assembly members and the general public to a number of proposed constitutional amendments apparently led the Government to withdraw them from consideration. (references) | |
Trade | Burma | After paying ten percent tax on their earnings, Burmese citizens can withdraw FECs from their state bank accounts. (references) |
Nigeria | Holders of Domiciliary Accounts are allowed access to them and can withdraw funds at the autonomous exchange rate, with three percent interest paid on the account. (references) | |
Burma | When foreign firms bring in foreign exchange to be used for purchases on the local economy, they must deposit it in a state bank and withdraw any funds used in FECs. (references) | |
Travel | Cote D'ivoire | Business travelers should bring travelers checks or withdraw cash on a credit card at the teller window in a bank. (references) |
Argentina | ATM machines are widely available in Buenos Aires, allowing travelers with a variety of credit or debit cards to withdraw funds automatically in local currency. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Chile | Members of unions are free to withdraw from union membership. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | TORTOISE, n. A creature thoughtfully created to supply occasion for the following lines by the illustrious Ambat Delaso: TO MY PET TORTOISE My friend, you are not graceful -- not at all; Your gait's between a stagger and a sprawl. Nor are you beautiful: your head's a snake's To look at, and I do not doubt it aches. As to your feet, they'd make an angel weep. 'Tis true you take them in whene'er you sleep. No, you're not pretty, but you have, I own, A certain firmness -- mostly you're [sic] backbone. Firmness and strength (you have a giant's thews) Are virtues that the great know how to use -- I wish that they did not; yet, on the whole, You lack -- excuse my mentioning it -- Soul. So, to be candid, unreserved and true, I'd rather you were I than I were you. Perhaps, however, in a time to be, When Man's extinct, a better world may see Your progeny in power and control, Due to the genesis and growth of Soul. So I salute you as a reptile grand Predestined to regenerate the land. Father of Possibilities, O deign To accept the homage of a dying reign! In the far region of the unforeknown I dream a tortoise upon every throne. I see an Emperor his head withdraw Into his carapace for fear of Law; A King who carries something else than fat, Howe'er acceptably he carries that; A President not strenuously bent On punishment of audible dissent -- Who never shot (it were a vain attack) An armed or unarmed tortoise in the back; Subject and citizens that feel no need To make the March of Mind a wild stampede; All progress slow, contemplative, sedate, And "Take your time" the word, in Church and State. O Tortoise, 'tis a happy, happy dream, My glorious testudinous regime! I wish in Eden you'd brought this about By slouching in and chasing Adam out. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | Still, it will not be expedient to withdraw immediately the whole of our force from that sea. |
William H. Taft | 1909-1913 | The promise to repay by the Government will furnish an inducement to savings deposits which private enterprise can not supply and at such a low rate of interest as not to withdraw custom from existing banks. |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | In my opinion, for us to withdraw from that effort would mean a collapse not only of South Viet-Nam, but Southeast Asia. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | We ought to foster more savings and personal responsibility by permitting people to establish an Individual Retirement Account and withdraw from it tax free for the cost of education, health care, first-time home-buying or the care of a parent. |
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| "Withdraw" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 91.52% of the time. "Withdraw" is used about 1,460 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 91.52% | 1,337 | 5,940 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 7.46% | 109 | 31,132 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.03% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,460 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "withdraw": go to the bank to withdraw some money ♦ withdraw a privilege ♦ withdraw authorization ♦ withdraw from ♦ withdraw from circulation ♦ withdraw into oneself ♦ withdraw the curtain ♦ withdraw to. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "withdraw": reach-reverse-thrust-withdraw. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "withdraw"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | sterf (die, expire, march off, pass away, retreat). (various references) | |
Albanian | tërhiqem (back away, back out of, backpedal, backslide, climb down, deny, depart, draw away, draw back, fall back, give ground, rebound, recede, recoil, retire, retrograde, shrink), tërheq (allure, appeal, arrest, attract, bewitch, call attention to, capture, catch, charm, daggle, dangle, decoy, drag, draggle, draw, draw out, engage, entice, fetch, fix, haul, heave, invite, jerk, lure, pluck, prepossess, pull, pull out, recall, retract, revoke, stretch, take back, tow, tug, web), marr mbrapsht (call back, recall, take back), heq nga qarkullimi (call in, retire), anuloj (abate, abrogate, annul, avoid, call off, cancel, defeat, disaffirm, disannul, negate, nullify, overrule, quash, repeal, rescind, retract, revoke, set aside, void). (various references) | |
Arabic | نكص (recoil, regress, retrograde, turn back), حول (ability, about, alien, around, be cross eyed, bleach, capricious, commit, concerning, deed, deliver, deter, divert, encode, hand down, hand over, make, metamorphose, power, process, redress, refer, relocate, round, stop, switch, transfer, transmute, transpose, turn, whimsical, work, year), تقهقر (back away, fall back, fall behind, give ground, go on before, hold down, lose ground, recede, recession, retire, retreat, retreating, retrograde, retrogression), تراجع (back away, back down, back up, backwards, blemish, degradation, draw back, drawback, fall back, fall behind, give back, give ground, give the right of way, kick, lose ground, move back, palinode, recede, recess, recession, recoil, regress, regression, renege, retire, retract, retraction, retreat, retreating, retrogression, sell out, stand, take back, turn back, unsay), سحب (call, dash, disengage, draft, drag, dragging, draught, draw, drawing, drawing out, hang fire, haul, heave, lug, pull, recall, recant, retreat, revoke, revulsion, run, strain, take back, take off, tow, traction, trail, train, tug, withdrawal), صرف (absolute, chuck, count, creak, dismiss, dismissal, double, downright, earn, exchange, groan, pay, pay away, pure, put out, receive, resolve, scrape, shake, shrift, sterling, turn away, unadulterated, unalloyed, vent), إنسحب (draw back, drop, drop out, move back, pull back, pull out, push off, recede, retire, retreat, separate, shag off, slope, smooth away, stand down, step down, subtract), إسترد (call, evict, get back, give back, recall, recapture, reconquer, recoup, recover, recuperate, regain, resume, retake, retrieve, return, take back), إرتد (bounce, cringe, draw back, rebound, recant, recoil, reflex, regress, renegade, renounce, reverberate, shrink), ألهى عن. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | уединявам се (retire, seclude), вземам си, вземам назад, оттеглям се (adjourn, back, back away, disengage, draw back, draw off, draw out, fall back, fall off, give back, give way to, pull back, recede, repair, retire, retreat, retrocede, retrograde, run out, scuttle, seclude, step down), оттеглям (back down, countermand, detach, haul off, pull away, retire, retract, retreat), отменям (abate, abrogate, annul, avoid, cancel, countermand, disaffirm, extinguish, override, quash, raise, recall, remit, repeal, rescind, retract, reverse, revoke, scrub, supersede, undo, wash out), отдръпвам (draw back, pull away, pull back), прибирам си, изтеглям се (draw out), изтеглям от обръщение (retire), изтеглям (draft, draw, drive up, elongate, pick up, pull, pull out), дръпвам (hitch, jerk, pull, pull at, pull away, pull down, pull in, retract, strike, suck at, tug, tweak, twitch). (various references) | |
Chinese | 退避 , 让步 (Concession, Withdrawing, Withdrawn, Withdrew), '回 , ' (remove, take away). (various references) | |
Czech | zrušit (abolish, abrogate, annul, break off, call off, cancel, close down, countermand, destroy, disannul, discontinue, dissolve, do away with, invalidate, nullify, overturn, quash, raise, repeal, rescind, revers, reverse, revoke, set aside, stop, strike off, sweep, take off, undo, unmake, vitiate, void), vzít zpìt, vyzvednout (collect, draw smb. out, exalt, fetch, stress), vyjmout (except, subduct, take out), vybrat (choose, clear, cull, look for, scoop, select, shell out, single out, tell off), ustoupit (budge, fall back, give back, give ground, give in, recede, relent, retire, retreat, shrink, shrink back, shrink from, start back, submit, yield), odvolat (abolish, abrogate, annul, call, call away, call back, call off, cancel, countermand, cry off, draw off, recall, recant, renounce, repeal, rescind, retract, reverse, revoke, swallow, take back, take off, undo, unsay, unswear), odtáhnout (drag somewhere, tow, troop, troop away). (various references) | |
Danish | udtage, trukket tilbage, kasseret (discard, out of use). (various references) | |
Dutch | terugtrekken (draw back, go back, retreat, return), intrekken (draw back). (various references) | |
Esperanto | retiri (draw back), forpasi (march off, retreat). (various references) | |
Faeroese | taka aftur (abjure, abolish, abrogate, annul, cancel, draw back, remit). (various references) | |
Farsi | پس گرفتن (Abalienate, Recapture, Retreat, Retrieve, Withdrawal), صرفنظرکردن (Betake, Calloff, Forget, Withdrawal), بازگیری (Withdrawal), بازگرفتن (Withdrawal). (various references) | |
Finnish | poistaa (abolish, deduct, delete, do away with, eliminate, exclude, remove, strike out, take out, write off). (various references) | |
French | retirer. (various references) | |
German | zurückziehen (abjure, backtrack, draw away, draw back, fly back, march back, move back, pull back, retire, retract, retreat, retrieve, revocation, revoke, to retire, to retract, to retrieve, withdrawn), entziehen (abstract, deprive, detract, draw, extract, take away, to detract). (various references) | |
Greek | υπαναχωρώ (back out, go back on, retract), αποσύρω (draw out, retire, retract), αποσύρομαι (pull out, recede, resign, retire, retire from, retract, retreat, stand down). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לאסוף (collect, gather, rake, reap, remove, round up, take in), ל"ב"ל (be different, depart from), ל"רתע (back away, blench, boggle, cringe, draw back, flinch, recoil, refrain, retract, retreat), ל"סיר "צע", ל"סתלק (be off, depart, exit, get away, go away, go off, make off, pop off, retire, scat, scram, sheer off, skip, take off), לס'ת (back away, draw back, fall back, give ground, lose ground, recede, retire, retract, retreat). (various references) | |
Hungarian | visszavonul (give ground, haul off, recede, retire, retreat, retrograde, stand down, to flinch, to give ground, to lose ground, to pull back, to recede, to recess, to recoil, to retire, to retreat, to retrograde, to sequester oneself, to shut up shop, to step aside, to take the back track), visszavon (back down, conceal, revoke, take back, to annul, to cry off, to recall, to recant, to repeal, to rescind, to retract, to revoke, to set back, to take back, unsay). (various references) | |
Indonesian | menyurutkan (lessen), menarik (appealing, attract, attractive, catchy, draw, engageing, haul, personable). (various references) | |
Italian | levare (abolish, get out, get up, levy, lift, quench, raise, remove, rise, subtract, take away, take off, take out, upbeat). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 会'抜ける (to withdraw from a society), 引下'る (to lower, to pull down, to reduce, to withdraw), 引上'る (to leave, to pull out, to retire, to withdraw), 引出す (to draw out, to pull out, to take out, to withdraw), 引き下'る (to lower, to pull down, to reduce, to withdraw), 引き下がる (to leave, to withdraw), 引き上'る (to leave, to pull out, to retire, to withdraw), 引き"もり (people who withdraw from society), 引き出す (to draw out, to pull out, to take out, to withdraw), 引き揚'る (to leave, to pull out, to retire, to withdraw), 引き去る (to deduct, to retreat, to withdraw), 出し入れ (deposit and withdraw, taking in and out), 引篭り (people who withdraw from society), 貯金'下ろす (to withdraw one's savings), 御前'退く (to withdraw from the presence), 取り下'る (to abandon, to withdraw), 杯'"す (to withdraw one's pledge of loyalty), 斥く (to recede, to retire, to retreat, to withdraw), 立ち退く (to clear out, to evacuate, to take refuge, to vacate, to withdraw), 罷り出る (to appear before, to leave, to withdraw), 願い下'る (to withdraw a request), 退く (to recede, to retire, to retreat, to withdraw), 退く (to recede, to retreat, to withdraw), 貯金'下'る (to withdraw one's savings), 引き篭り (people who withdraw from society). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ひき す (to draw out, to pull out, to take out, to withdraw), ちょき"'さ'る (to withdraw one's savings), ちょき"'おろす (to withdraw one's savings), とりさ'る (to abandon, to withdraw), "ぜ"'のく (to withdraw from the presence), かい'ぬける (to withdraw from a society), どく (poison, to recede, to retreat, to withdraw, toxicant), しいれ (deposit and withdraw, taking in and out), まかりでる (to appear before, to leave, to withdraw), たちのく (to clear out, to evacuate, to take refuge, to vacate, to withdraw), ひきあ'る (to leave, to pull out, to retire, to withdraw), ひき"もり (people who withdraw from society), ひきさ'る (to lower, to pull down, to reduce, to withdraw), ひきさる (to deduct, to retreat, to withdraw), ひきさがる (to leave, to withdraw), しりぞく (to recede, to retire, to retreat, to withdraw), ねがいさ'る (to withdraw a request), のく (to recede, to retreat, to withdraw). (various references) | |
Korean | 퇴하십시". (various references) | |
Manx | tayrn ergooyl, tayrn er ash (draw back, draw off, pull back; revocation, retract, retractation, stand down, withdrawal). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ithdrawway.(various references) | |
Portuguese | tirar (abstract, bag, deduct, disbud, doff, drag out, force, get, get off, haul, iron out, lay hold of, lug, pick, pick up, pilfer, pluck, pull, pull off, pull out, put off, remove, rip, rub out, scour, take, take away, take off, take out, tear off, vail, wrest), retire, retirar de circulação, retirar (recant, remove, retire, take away, withhold), remover (brush, clear, comb, fork, get off, obliterate, obviate, purge, remove, sequester, shift, shovel, winkle out), excluir do catálogo, afastar (alienate, avert, call away, depart, deviate, dispel, displace, distract, diverge, divert, do away with, eliminate, estrange, fend, get rid of, hold off, keep away, keep off, lay off, make away, move away, obviate, relegate, remove, repel, retire, rid, separate, wean). (various references) | |
Romanian | trage înapoi, se retrage (adjourn, climb, crane, cry off, draw back, draw off, efface, fall back, give way, make one's bow, move back, repair in, repair to, retire, retract, retreat, shrink, shrink from, stand back, step aside), se închide în (poke oneself up, retire into one's shell), retrage (recall, recede, remove, retire, retract, subside), retracta (call back, eat one's words, recant, retract, shrink, unsay), pleca (absent onself, depart, get away, get off, go, go away, leave, make away with, pack off, pack up and be off, put off, sail, set out, shuffle off, start, take one's departure, take oneself off), lua înapoi (call back), exila (banish, exile, expel, proscribe, relegate), degaja (clear, disengage, educe, emit, evolve, extricate, liberate, relieve), îndepãrta (avert, carry off, cast, chase away, clean, clear, cut out, discard, dismiss, drive away, eliminate, estrange, fence off, lay, move away, remove, retire, ward off). (various references) | |
Russian | увести (take away), отводить (allot, back off, draw off, estop, march off, take back, turn aside), отзывать (call off, recall, reclaim), забирать (abstract, board, bring along, screen, take along, take away, wainscot, withdrew), извлекать (abstract, derive, elicit, extract, extracted, extracting, retrieve, uncompress). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | uzmicati (give ground, retreat, step back), povući (disaffirm, draw off, keep back, pull, recall, retire, scratch, take, take back), odustati (abjure, backtrack, baulk, drop, drop out, give up, lay off, pass up, quit, recede, remise, scratch), odreći se (abdicate, abjure, abnegate, back down, deny, disclaim, forgo, forwent, relinquish, remise, renounce, sign away, surrender, waive), izvaditi (draw, extract, fish out, pull out, retrieve, take out), ispisati (cover with writing, printout, write out). (various references) | |
Spanish | retirar (draw, draw back, draw in, drop, pension off, recall, remove, retire, retract, scratch). (various references) | |
Swedish | utträda (break away, leave, secede), undandra, dra tillbaka (back, draw back, draw off, retract), annullera (annul, cancel, defeat, nullify, revoke). (various references) | |
Turkish | para çekmek (make a draft, pick up the tab), geri almak (claw back, declare off, draw back, recall, recapture, resume, retake, retract, retrieve, revoke, set back, swallow, take back, turn back), geri çekmek (draw away, draw back, draw off, recall, retire, retract), geri çekilmek (beat a retreat, blench, disengage, fall back, recede, recoil, regress, retire, retract, retreat, set back, shrink back, stand back, step back), ayrılmak (apostatize, be off, be through with, break away, break up, break with, check out, come unstuck, cut loose, decamp, defect, depart, desert, deviate, disunite, divaricate, diverge, divide, divorce, divorce from, draw apart, draw away, drop out, fork, furcate, get clear of, get off, give up, graduate, hive off, lead away from, leave, mosey, move off, part, part company, part company with, part from, part with, pull away, pull out, quit, retire, revolt, revolt from, secede, segregate, separate, sever, splinter off, split, split off, split up, stray, sunder, take one's farewell of, tear oneself away, unstuck, vacate, walk off, walk out, walk out of), almak (accept, accomplish, achieve, acquire, admit, assume, attain, borrow, buy, capture, collect, come in, conquer, divest smb. of, draw, enter on, enter upon, enucleate, excise, extract, fetch, gain, garner, get, govern, have, help oneself to, hold, induct, lay hold of, let in, obtain, occupy, pick up, pull off, purchase, put on, receive, seat, seize, sweep off, take, take from, take in, take on, take over, take up, to buy, wreak), çekmek (abide, absorb, arrest, attract, be a sufferer by, be a sufferer from, be cursed with smth., bear, bear with, captivate, carry, catch, charm, claw, conjugate, decline, drag, draw, draw off, draw on, draw out, dwindle, engage, engross, extract, fetch, glamor, glamour, go through, go to scale at, grind, grip, haul, heave, hitch, hoist, hold, inflect, inhale, invite, last out, lug, lump, magnetize, pass through, pique, pluck, prepossess, pull, pull away, pull over, pull up, receive, record, run up, scale in, scale out, schlep, schlepp, shoot, shrink, sip, siphon, siphon off, soak, soak in, sop up, stand the racket, stretch, suck, suffer, sustain, syphon, syphon off, take, take after, take one's medicine, throw back, toss, tow, tow away, tug, turn the scale at, undergo, up with, whisk), çekinmek (beware, boggle, chicken out, dread, fear, flee from, flinch, funk, get cold feet, hang back, have cold feet, hesitate, hold back, hold off, keep clear of, shrink, shun, shy, wince), çekilmek (abdicate, be pulled, bolt, bow, bow out, decline, desist, draw away, draw back, draw off, dry up, ebb, edge out, give over, go out, gravitate, opt out, quit, recede, repair, resign, retire, retract, scratch, secede, stand, step aside, step down, walk out). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | скасовувати (abate, abolish, abrogate, annihilate, annul, call off, cancel, disaffirm, disestablish, negative, nullify, repeal, rescind), відступитися, відсмикувати, відходити (backtrack, be off, belie, branch out, depart, digress, move back, move off, pull off, pull out, stand out, trek, walk away, walk off, yield), відтуляти, відкликати (call away, call off, cancel, countermand, recall, revoke), відмовлятися (abdicate, abjure, abnegate, back down, backtrack, cast off, discard, forgo, forsake, forswear, jettison, lay aside, lay down, nill, part with, pass up, pretext, recede, refuse, relinquish, renounce, repeal, retract, throw aside, throw out, throw over, waive), виводити (deduce, take off, take out), вилучати (exclude, exempt), виполювати (hoe), анулювати (abate, abrogate, annul, avoid, bar, cancel, defeat, disannul, elide, null, nullify, overrule, quash, repeal, rescind, undo, wash out). (various references) | |
Welsh | atynnu (attract). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | abducant, abducemini, abduci, abduco, abducta, abducti, abductos, abductus, abduxerunt, abduxit, abduxitque, ablata, ablatas, ablati, ablatis, ablatisque, ablato, ablatum, ablatus, abscedat, abscedentibus, abstulerant, abstuleris, abstulero, abstulerunt, abstuleruntque, abstuli, abstulissent, abstulisti, abstulit, abstulo, amore, amoris, amotis, amoto, amotus, amove, amoveamus, amovebis, amoverent, amoveret, amoverunt, amovet, amovete, amovi, amovit, aufer, auferam, auferamini, auferant, auferas, auferat, auferatis, auferatur, auferemini, auferendam, auferendo, auferens, auferent, auferentem, auferentes, auferentesque, auferenti, auferentur, auferes, auferet, auferetis, auferetur, auferre, auferrent, auferres, auferret, auferretur, auferri, aufers, aufert, auferte, aufertis, auferto, aufertur, auferuntur, aversa, aversae, aversi, aversum, aversus, avertam, avertantur, avertas, avertat, avertatur, averte, avertebant, avertens, avertent, avertente, avertentem, avertentur, avertere, averterem, averterentur, averteret, averteris, averterit, averterunt, avertes, avertet, avertetur, averti, avertis, avertissem, avertisset, avertisti, avertit, avertite, avertitque, avertuntur, bacchidem, cedo, concedo, decessit, deficio, dem, demas, dementes, dementia, dementis, demere, demetrio, demetrium, dempserint, discedant, discedas, discedat, discede, discedebant, discedebat, discedendi, discedens, discedensque, discedent, discedentes, discedere, discederent, discederet, discedet, discedimus, discedit, discedite, discessere, discesseris, discesserit, discesserunt, discessissent, discessisset, discessit, egressio, elongabitur, elongabuntur, elongant, elongasti, elongatum, elongaveris, elongaverunt, elongavi, elongeris, excedant, excedendo, excedens, excederet, excedimus, excessi, excessit, excessu, excessum, excessus, recedam, recede, recedent, recedentibus, recedere, recedes, recedet, recedo, recesserat, recesseruntque, recessi, recessisse, recessisti, recessit, recipero, remove, removere, replico, retractat, retractu, retrahas, retrahe, retrahente, retrahere, retraxerunt, retraxit, secedebat, secedere, secedo, secesserat, secessissent, secessit, secessum, subducere. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 25, Verse 17 |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Subtrahe pedem tuum de domo proximi tui nequando satiatus oderit te |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Withdray thi foot fro the hous of thi neyhebore; lest any time fulfild, he shul hate thee. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour's house; lest he be weary of thee, and so hate thee. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbor's house; lest he be weary of thee, and so hate thee. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Let not your foot be frequently in your neighbour's house, or he may get tired of you, and his feeling be turned to hate. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Proverbs Chapter 25, Verse 17 |
| Cebuano | ¶ Ayaw pagpakanunaya ang imong tiil sa balay sa imong isigkatawo, Tingali unya siya pul-an kanimo, ug magdumot kanimo. |
| Croatian | Rijetko zalazi u kuæu bližnjega svoga, da te se ne zasiti i ne zamrzi na te. |
| Danish | Sæt sjældent din Fod i din Næstes Hus, at han ej får for meget af dig og ledes. |
| Dutch | Spaar uw voet van het huis uws naasten, opdat hij niet zat van u worde, en u hate. |
| Finnish | Astu jalallasi harvoin lähimmäisesi kotiin, ettei hän sinuun kyllästyisi ja alkaisi sinua vihata. |
| French | Mets rarement le pied dans la maison de ton prochain, De peur qu`il ne soit rassasié de toi et qu`il ne te haïsse. |
| German | Entzieh deinen Fuß vom Hause deines Nächsten; er möchte dein überdrüssig und dir gram werden. |
| Hungarian | Ritkán tedd lábadat a te felebarátodnak házába; hogy be ne teljesedjék te veled, és meg ne gyûlöljön téged. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Janganlah terlalu sering datang ke rumah tetanggamu, nanti ia bosan lalu membencimu. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | demikianpun hendaklah engkau hemat-hemat dengan kakimu berulang ke rumah sahabatmu, supaya jangan ia menjadi penat oleh sebab engkau, lalu benci akan dikau. |
| Italian | Metti di rado il piede in casa del tuo vicino, perché non si stanchi di te e ti prenda in odio. |
| Maori | ¶ Kia takitahi tou waewae ki te whare o tou hoa; kei hoha ia ki a koe, a ka kino ki a koe. |
| Norwegian | Sett sjelden din fot i din venns hus, forat han ikke skal bli lei av dig og hate dig! |
| Rumanian | Calcq rar kn casa aproapelui tqu, ca sq nu se sature de tine wi sq te urascq. - |
| Russian | оЕ ХЮБЭБК ЧИП"ЙФШ Ч "ПН "ТХЗБ ФЧПЕЗП, ЮФП'Щ ПО ОЕ ОБУЛХЮЙМ ФП'ПА Й ОЕ ЧПЪОЕОБЧЙ"ЕМ ФЕ'С. |
| Spanish | Detén tu pie de la casa de tu vecino, no sea que se harte de ti y te aborrezca. |
| Swedish | Låt din fot icke för ofta komma i din väns hus, Så att han ej bliver mätt på dig och får motvilja mot dig. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "withdraw": withdrawable, withdrawal, withdrawals, withdrawing, withdrawn, withdrawnness, withdrawnnesses, withdraws. (additional references) | |
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"Withdraw" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: withdarw, withdra, withdrawl, withdrwa, withdrwal. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "withdraw" (pronounced wuthdrô" or wi'thdrô") |
| 3 | -d r ô" | draw, redraw. |
| 3 | -d r ô" | draw, redraw. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-h-i-r-t-w-w" | |
-2 letters: wraith. | |
-3 letters: airth, third, thraw, triad, width, wrath. | |
-4 letters: adit, airt, arid, dart, dawt, dirt, dita, drat, draw, hair, hard, hart, raid, rath, tahr, thaw, thir, trad, wadi, wair, wait, ward, wart, what, whid, whir, whit, with, writ. | |
-5 letters: aid, air, ait, art, dah, daw, dit, had, hat, haw, hid, hit, rad, rah, rat. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-h-i-r-t-w-w" | |
+1 letter: withdrawn, withdraws. | |
+2 letters: withdrawal. | |
+3 letters: whitherward, withdrawals, withdrawing. | |
+4 letters: withdrawable. | |
+5 letters: withdrawnness. | |
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