withdraw

English

Etymology

From Middle English withdrawen (“to draw away, draw back”), from with- (“away, back”) + drawen (“to draw”). More at with-, draw.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wɪðˈdɹɔː/, /wɪθˈdɹɔː/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɔː

Verb

withdraw (third-person singular simple present withdraws, present participle withdrawing, simple past withdrew, past participle withdrawn)

1. (transitive) To pull (something) back, aside, or away.
   • Hooker

     Impossible it is that God should withdraw his presence from anything.

2. (intransitive) To stop talking to, or interacting with, other people and start thinking thoughts that are not related to what is happening around.
3. (transitive) To take back (a comment, etc).

   to withdraw false charges

4. (transitive) To remove, to stop providing (one's support, etc).
5. (transitive) To extract (money from an account).
6. (intransitive) To retreat.
7. (intransitive) To be in withdrawal from an addictive drug etc. [from 20th c.]
   • 1994, Edward St Aubyn, Bad News, Picador 2006, p. 201:

     Simon had tried to rob a bank while he was withdrawing, but he had been forced to surrender to the police after they had fired several volleys at him.

Synonyms

• (take back): recant, unsay; See also Thesaurus:recant

Translations

pull back

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 撤退 (zh) (chètuì)

• Czech: stáhnout (cs)
• Dutch: terugtrekken (nl)
• Finnish: vetää takaisin, vetää pois
• French: retirer (fr)
• Galician: retirar (gl), separar (gl)
• German: zurückziehen (de)
• Greek: αποσύρομαι (el) (aposýromai)

  Ancient: ὑποχωρέω (hupokhōréō)

• Hungarian: visszahúz (hu), elhúz (hu), behúz (hu)
• Italian: ritirare (it), tirarsi indietro, tirare via, tirare indietro
• Japanese: 引き出す (ひきだす, hikidasu)

• Korean: 후퇴하다 (ko) (hutoehada), 취소하다 (ko) (chwisohada)
• Latin: retrahō, desciscō
• Maori: whakatahi, paunu, unu (mi), kounu
• Old English: oftēon
• Old Saxon: withfahan
• Portuguese: retirar (pt)
• Romanian: retrage (ro)
• Russian: выводи́ть (ru) impf (vyvodítʹ) (transitive), вы́вести (ru) pf (vývesti) (transitive), отходи́ть (ru) impf (otxodítʹ) (intransitive), отойти́ (ru) impf (otojtí) (intransitive)
• Slovene: umakniti
• Spanish: retirar (es)
• Telugu: ఉపసంహరించు (te) (upasaṃhariñcu)

to stop interacting with others

• Hungarian: visszavonul (hu), visszahúzódik, elvonul (hu)

• Maori: whakamōtu

take back

• Dutch: terugnemen (nl)
• Esperanto: retiri
• Finnish: ottaa takaisin, perua (fi)
• French: retirer (fr)
• Galician: retirar (gl), retractarse
• German: zurücknehmen
• Greek: αποσύρω (el) (aposýro)
• Hungarian: visszavon (hu), visszavesz (hu), visszaszív, kivon (hu), bevon (hu)
• Italian: ritirare (it), prendere indietro
• Japanese: 引き出す (ひきだす, hikidasu), 取り消す (とりけす, torikesu)

• Korean: 취소하다 (ko) (chwisohada)
• Latvian: atsaukt
• Maori: kounu
• Old English: oftēon
• Polish: wycofać (pl) pf
• Portuguese: devolver (pt)
• Russian: брать наза́д impf (bratʹ nazád), забира́ть (ru) impf (zabirátʹ), забра́ть (ru) pf (zabrátʹ)
• Spanish: retirar (es)
• Telugu: ఉపసంహరించు (te) (upasaṃhariñcu)

remove, stop providing

• Dutch: intrekken (nl)
• Finnish: perua (fi), vetää pois
• French: retirer (fr)
• Galician: retirar (gl), quitar (gl), tirar (gl), sacar (gl)
• German: entziehen (de)
• Hungarian: visszavon (hu), megvon (hu), elvon (hu)
• Italian: ritirare (it), rimuovere (it), rappellare, revocare (it), interrompere (it)
• Japanese: 引き揚げる (hikiageru), 手を引く (ja) (te o hiku)

• Korean: 제거하다 (ko) (jegeohada)
• Latvian: atsaukt
• Maori: unu (mi)
• Old English: oftēon
• Portuguese: retirar (pt)
• Slovene: umakniti
• Spanish: retirar (es)
• Telugu: ఉపసంహరించు (te) (upasaṃhariñcu)

extract (money from an account)

• Arabic: سَحَبَ‎ (saḥaba)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 提款 (zh) (tíkuǎn)

• Dutch: afhalen (nl) (Flanders), pinnen (nl) (the Netherlands), opnemen (nl)
• Finnish: nostaa (fi)
• French: retirer (fr)
• Galician: sacar (gl), retirar (gl)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: abheben (de)
• Hungarian: kivesz (hu), felvesz (hu)
• Irish: aistarraing
• Italian: prelevare, ritirare (it)
• Japanese: 引き出す (ひきだす, hikidasu), 下ろす (ja) (おろす, orosu)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can

• Korean: 뽑다 (ko) (ppopda), 추출하다 (chuchulhada)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latvian: izņemt
• Lithuanian: išsiimti
• Maori: tango
• Polish: wypłacić (pl) pf, wypłacać (pl) impf
• Portuguese: sacar (pt), levantar (pt), retirar (pt)
• Romanian: preleva (ro), retrage (ro)
• Russian: снима́ть (ru) impf (snimátʹ), снять (ru) pf (snjatʹ)
• Slovene: dvigniti (sl)
• Spanish: sacar (es)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: para çekmek (tr)
• Vietnamese: rút tiền

retreat

• Arabic: تَرَاجَعَ‎ (tarājaʿa)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 後退 (zh), 后退 (zh) (hòutuì), 退卻 (zh), 退却 (zh) (tuìquè), 撤退 (zh) (chètuì)

• Dutch: terugtrekken (nl)
• Finnish: perääntyä, vetäytyä (fi)
• French: se retirer (fr)
• Galician: retirarse
• German: sich zurückziehen (de), abziehen (de)
• Hungarian: visszavonul (hu), kivonul (hu), kimegy (hu), meghátrál (hu), visszalép (hu), visszahúzódik
• Italian: ritirarsi (it), retrocedere (it)

• Japanese: 後退する (kōtai-suru), 退却する (taikyaku-suru)
• Korean: 후퇴하다 (ko) (hutoehada), 물러서다 (mulleoseoda)
• Latvian: atkāpties
• Lithuanian: atsitraukti
• Maori: maunu, whakatahi, unu (mi), kounu
• Portuguese: retirar-se
• Russian: отступа́ть (ru) impf (otstupátʹ), отступи́ть (ru) pf (otstupítʹ), ретирова́ться (ru) impf (retirovátʹsja)
• Slovene: umakniti se
• Spanish: retirarse (es)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} terugtreden (nl)
• French: ^{(please verify)} tirer (fr), ^{(please verify)} retirer (fr)

• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} menarik, ^{(please verify)} membatalkan