WITHDRAW


Meaning of WITHDRAW in English

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had withdrawn farther and farther into herself — Ethel Wilson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

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.