Withdraw: Definition and part of speech

Withdraw

  1. v. i. To retire; to retreat; to quit a company or place; to go away; as, he withdrew from the company.
  2. v. t. 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.
  3. v. t. To take back; to recall or retract; as, to withdraw false charges.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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