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say it: with-DRAW
withdraw is a verb meaning "pull back or move away or backward". It carries 12 recorded senses.
withdraw from active participation
“He retired from chess”
cause to be returned
“recall the defective auto tires”
“The manufacturer tried to call back the spoilt yoghurt”
keep away from others
“He sequestered himself in his study to write a book”
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”
remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, 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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for withdraw come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.