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Definition of Withdraw
Withdraw

To take back or away, as what has been bestowed or enjoyed; to draw back; to cause to move away or retire; as, to withdraw aid, favor, capital, or the like.

To take back; to recall or retract; as, to withdraw false charges.

To retire; to retreat; to quit a company or place; to go away; as, he withdrew from the company.

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Withdraw Quotations

Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
Baltasar Gracian

We must win in Iraq. If we withdraw, there will be chaos; there will be genocide; and they will follow us home.
John McCain

To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
Miguel De Cervantes

To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.
Lord Byron

Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.
Jean Cocteau

Withdraw Translations

withdraw in Dutch is terugtrekken, intrekken
withdraw in Italian is levare
withdraw in Latin is secedo, concedo, abduco, abstulo, recedo
withdraw in Portuguese is retire
withdraw in Spanish is retirar, quitar, encoger


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