transcription, транскрипция: [ with-ˈdrȯ, with- ]
verb
( with·drew -ˈdrü ; with·drawn -ˈdrȯn ; with·draw·ing -ˈdrȯ(-)iŋ)
Etymology: Middle English, from with from + drawen to draw
Date: 13th century
transitive verb
1.
a. : to take back or away : remove
pressure upon educational administrators to withdraw academic credit — J. W. Scott
b. : to remove from use or cultivation
c. : to remove (money) from a place of deposit
d. : to turn away (as the eyes) from an object of attention
withdrew her gaze
e. : to draw (as a curtain) back or aside
2.
a. : to remove from consideration or set outside a group
withdrew his name from the list of nominees
withdrew their child from the school
b.
(1) : take back , retract
(2) : to recall or remove (a motion) under parliamentary procedure
intransitive verb
1.
a. : to move back or away : retire
b. : to draw back from a battlefield : retreat
2.
a. : to remove oneself from participation
b. : to become socially or emotionally detached
had withdrawn farther and farther into herself — Ethel Wilson
3. : to recall a motion under parliamentary procedure
• with·draw·able -ˈdrȯ-ə-bəl adjective