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==English==
{{was wotd|2022|August|27}}

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|en|/wɪðˈdɹɔː/|/wɪθˈdɹɔː/|a=RP}}
* {{IPA|en|/wɪðˈdɹɔ/|/wɪθˈdɹɔ/|a=GA}}
* {{IPA|en|/wɪðˈdɹɑ/|/wɪθˈdɹɑ/|a=cot-caught}}
* {{audio|en|En-us-withdraw.ogg|a=GA}}
* {{hyphenation|en|with|draw}}
* {{rhymes|en|ɔː|s=2}}

===Etymology 1===
{{PIE word|en|wi}}{{root|en|ine-pro|*-teros|*dʰregʰ-}}
From {{inh|en|enm|withdrawen}}, {{m|enm|withdrauen|t=to depart, leave, move away; (''reflexive'') to go away; (''reflexive'') to leave someone’s service; (''often reflexive'') to draw back or retreat (from a battlefield or dangerous place), withdraw; to abandon, desert; to go, go forth; to move; of the sea, water, etc.: to (cause to) ebb, recede, subside; to disappear; to slacken, wane; (''often reflexive'') to cease, stop; to desist, refrain; (''reflexive'') to go back on, recant; to avoid, eschew; to bring under control, contain, suppress; to curb, curtail; to delay, put off; to demur, refuse; to carry or take away, deprive of, remove; to contract, draw away or in, retract; to deny, refuse; to revoke; to withhold; to divert; to separate; to adopt, borrow, imitate}}{{nb...|widdraw, witdrawe, withdrah, withdraugh, withdraughe, withdrauh, withdrauʒ, withdrawe, withdrawine, withdraʒ, withedrawe, withedrawin, wtdrau, (Northern England) widdrau, witdrau|otherforms=1}},<ref>{{R:MED Online|entry=withdrauen|pos=v|id=MED53018}}</ref> from {{m|enm|with-|pos={{glossary|prefix}} meaning ‘away; back’}}<ref>{{R:MED Online|entry=with-|pos=pref|id=MED53000}}</ref> + {{m|enm|drawen}}, {{m|enm|drauen|t=to drag, pull, tow, tug, draw [''and other senses'']}}<ref>{{R:MED Online|entry=drauen|pos=v|id=MED12537}}</ref> (ultimately from {{inh|en|ine-pro|*dʰregʰ-|t=to drag, pull; to run}}); see further at {{l|en|with-}} and {{l|en|draw}}. The English word is analysable as {{prefix|en|with|draw}}.<ref>{{R:OED Online|pos=v|id=229621|date=June 2022|nodot=1}}; {{R:Lexico|pos=v}}</ref>

====Verb====
{{en-verb|withdraws|withdrawing|withdrew|withdrawn}}

# {{lb|en|transitive}}
## To [[draw#Verb|draw]] or [[pull#Verb|pull]] (something) [[away#Preposition|away]] or [[back#Preposition|back]] from its [[original#Adjective|original]] [[position#Noun|position]] or [[situation]].
##* {{quote-book|en|author=[[w:David Dickson (minister)|David Dickson]]|chapter=[[w:Psalm 74|Psal[m] LXXIV]]. [[w:Psalms of Asaph|Maschil of Asaph]].|title=A Brief Explication of the Other Fifty Psalmes, from Ps. 50. to Ps. 100|location=London|publisher={{...|Printed by}} T[homas] R[atcliffe] & E[dward] M[ottershed] for Ralph Smith,{{nb...|at the Bible in Cornhill, near the Royal Exchange.}}|year=1653|page=169|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=nhBlAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA169|oclc=1179654035|passage=VVhy '''vvithdravveſt''' thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy boſome.|footer={{small|A quotation from [[w:Psalms|Psalm]] 74:11 of the Bible.}}}}
##* {{RQ:Milton Samson|page=19|lines=190–194|passage=Hovv counterfeit a coin they are vvho friends / Bear in their Superſcription (of the moſt / I vvould be underſtood) in proſperous days / They ſvvarm, but in adverſe '''vvithdravv''' their head / Not to be found, though ſought.}}
##* {{RQ:Dickens Dombey|chapter=After a Lapse|page=587|passage=["]She was as proud as t' other in her way," said the old woman, touching the face of her daughter fearfully, and '''withdrawing''' her hand, "for all she's so quiet now; but she'll shame 'em with her good looks, yet. Ha, ha! ''She'll'' shame 'em, will my handsome daughter!"}}
##* {{quote-book|en|author=w:Jean Ingelow|chapter=A Dead Year|title=Poems|edition=author’s|location=Boston, Mass.|publisher=w:Roberts Brothers|year=1865|page=106|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=M2gZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA106|oclc=1069303974|passage=Envy not! for thou wilt wear / In the dark a shroud as fair; / Golden with the sunny ray / Thou '''withdrawest''' from my day; {{...}}}}
### To [[remove#Verb|remove]] (someone or {{lb|en|reflexive|archaic}} oneself) from a position or situation; specifically {{lb|en|military}}, to remove ([[soldier#Noun|soldiers]]) from a [[battle#Noun|battle]] or position where they are [[station#Verb|stationed]].
###* {{RQ:Nashe Christs Teares|folio=24|passage=Thou neuer '''vvithdrevvſt''' thy ſelfe and vvert ſolitarie, but my Spyrite vvas reproouing and diſputing vvith thee.}}
###* {{RQ:Shakespeare Richard 2 Q1|act=V|scene=iii|page=72|passage='''VVithdravve''' your ſelues, and leaue vs here alone.}}
###* {{RQ:Camden Holland Britain|chapter=Brechnock-shire|page=627|passage=[A]s the Saxons vvere novv ſpoiling and harrying the vvhole Iland, and ''{{w|Vortigern}}'' had '''vvithdravven''' himſelfe into theſe parts, ''Paſcentius'' his ſonne ruled all as Lord, by the permiſſion of ''[[w:Ambrosius Aurelianus|Aurelius Ambroſe]]'', as ''[[w:Nennius|Ninnius]]'' vvriteth, {{...}}}}
###* {{RQ:Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress|page=118|passage=[H]e is gone as I ſaid, let him go; the loſs is no mans but his ovvn, he has ſaved us the trouble of going from him; for he continuing, as I ſuppoſe he vvill do, as he is, he vvould have been but a blot in our Company: beſides, the Apoſtle ſays, ''From ſuch '''vvithdravv''' thy ſelf.''}}
###* {{RQ:Atterbury Sermons|volume=I|chapter=Some Reasons Assigned, for Our Saviour’s Appearing Chiefly to His Apostles, after His Resurrection; and His Manner of Conversing with Them, Represented: In a Sermon Preached at Westminster-Abbey, on Easter-Day, 1718|date=6 April 1718|page=177|passage=They [the apostles] vvere by Degrees to be VVeaned from their Fondneſs for his &#91;{{w|Jesus}}'s&#93; Perſon, and their Deſire of his Bodily Preſence; and to this end it vvas requiſite, that he ſhould not '''vvithdravv''' himſelf from their Sight, at once, but appear, and diſappear to them, at fit Intervals; diſcontinuing, and reſuming his Converſation vvith them, in ſuch a manner, as might beſt diſpoſe them to be vvilling entirely to part vvith him.}}
###* {{RQ:Shelley Adonais|stanza=XLII|page=21|passage=He is a presence to be felt and known / In darkness and in light, from herb and stone, / Spreading itself where'er that Power may move / Which has '''withdrawn''' his being to its own; {{...}}}}
###* {{RQ:Scott Quentin Durward|volume=I|chapter=The Boar-hunt|page=237|passage=It had so happened that a sounder (''i.e.'' in the language of the period, a boar of only two years old,) had crossed the track of the proper object of the chase, and '''withdrawn''' in pursuit of him all the dogs, (saving two or three couple of old staunch hounds,) and the greater part of the huntsmen.}}
###* {{RQ:Thackeray Vanity Fair|chapter=Returns to the Genteel World|page=540|passage=Walter Scape was '''withdrawn''' from Eton, and put into a merchant's house.}}
### {{lb|en|archaic}} To draw or pull (a [[bolt#Noun|bolt]], [[curtain#Noun|curtain]], [[veil#Noun|veil]], or other [[object#Noun|object]]) [[aside#Preposition|aside]].
###* {{RQ:Dickens Barnaby Rudge|chapter=9|page=284|passage=[S]he was in no mood for sleep; so, putting her light upon the table and '''withdrawing''' the little window curtain, she gazed out pensively at the wild night sky.}}
###* {{RQ:Dickens Christmas Carol|page=137|passage=Scrooge glanced towards the Phantom. Its steady hand was pointed to the head. The cover was so carelessly adjusted that the slightest raising of it, the motion of a finger upon Scrooge's part, would have disclosed the face. He thought of it, felt how easy it would be to do, and longed to do it; but had no more power to '''withdraw''' the veil than to dismiss the spectre at his side.}}
###* {{RQ:Robert Browning La Saisiaz|page=18|passage=Here's the veil '''withdrawn''' from landscape: up to Jura and beyond, / All awaits us ranged and ready; yet she violates the bond, / Neither leans nor looks nor listens: why is this?}}
## To [[take away]] or [[take back]] (something previously [[give#Verb|given]] or [[permit#Verb|permitted]]); to remove, to [[retract#Verb|retract]].
##* {{RQ:Coverdale Bible|1 Chronicles|18|folio=lxxxvi|verso=1|column=1|passage=I wyl be his father, and he ſhal be my ſonne. And I wyl not '''withdrawe''' my mercy from him, as I haue '''withdrawen''' it frõ him that was before the[e]: {{...}}|footer=1 Chronicles 17:13 in modern versions of the Bible.}}
##* {{quote-book|en|author=Michael Cope [''i.e.'', {{w|Michel Cop}}]|chapter=The Eleuenth Chapter|translator=M[arcelline] O[utred]|title=A Godly and Learned Exposition uppon the [[w:Book of Proverbs|Prouerbes of Solomon]]:{{nb...|Written in French by Maister Michael Cope, Minister of the Woorde of God, at Geneua: And Translated into English, by M. O.}}|location=London|publisher={{...|Imprinted at London by}} Thomas Dawson,{{nb...|dwelling at the Three Cranes in the Vintree}}, for George Bishop|year=1580|section=folio 191, verso|sectionurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=heRmAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA191-IA1|oclc=1040999799|passage=Hee that '''vvithdravveth''' the corne, the people vvill curſe him: but bleſſing ſhall bee on the head of him that ſelleth corne.|footer={{small|A quotation from [[w:Book of Proverbs|Proverbs]] 11:26 in the Bible.}}}}
##* {{RQ:Hooker Laws|chapter=Of the Personall Presence of Christ Euery Where, and in What Sense It may be Graunted He is Euery Where Present According to the Flesh|page=300|passage=Impoſſible it is that God ſhould '''vvithdravve''' his preſence from any thing, becauſe the very ſubſtance of God is infinite.}}
##* {{RQ:Shelley Alastor|page=2|passage=[F]orgive / This boast, beloved brethren, and '''withdraw''' / No portion of your wonted favour now!}}
##* {{RQ:Tennyson Poems 1842|volume=II|poem=The Two Voices|page=126|passage=To pass, when Life her light '''withdraws''', / Not void of righteous self-applause, / Nor in a merely selfish cause— {{...}}}}
##* {{quote-journal|en|author=Rhodri Clark|title=TfW seeks PRM derogation for Class 37 sets|journal=w:Modern Railways|location=Shepperton, Surrey|publisher=Ian Allen Publishing|month=October|year=2019|page=87|issn=0026-8356|oclc=884584817|passage=The plan is to '''withdraw''' the Pacers from service by the end of the year.}}
## To [[cause#Verb|cause]] or [[help#Verb|help]] (someone) to stop [[take#Verb|taking]] an [[addictive#Adjective|addictive]] [[drug#Noun|drug]] or [[substance#Noun|substance]]; to [[dry out]]. {{defdate|from 20th c.}}
## To take (one's [[eye#Noun|eyes]]) off something; to [[look#Verb|look]] away.
##* {{RQ:Dickens Sketches by Boz|volume=II|title=Passage in the Life of Mr. Watkins Tottle. Chapter 1.|page=16|passage=The lady looked up; her eyes met those of Mr. Watkins Tottle. She '''withdrew''' them in a sweet confusion, and Watkins Tottle did the same—the confusion was mutual.}}
##* {{RQ:Dickens Oliver Twist|volume=III|chapter=Containing an Account of What Passed between Mr. and Mrs. Bumble and Monks, at Their Nocturnal Interview|page=6|passage=With this agreeable speech Monks turned short upon the matron, and bent his fierce gaze upon her, till even she, who was not easily cowed, was fain to '''withdraw''' her eyes, and turn them towards the ground.}}
## {{lb|en|figuratively}}
### To [[disregard]] (something) as [[belong]]ing to a certain [[group#Noun|group]].
###* {{RQ:Hallam Literature of Europe|volume=II|chapter=History of Poetry from 1550 to 1600|section=V (On Latin Poetry)|para=97|page=341|passage=One [poem] by {{w|Hercules Rollock}} on the marriage of {{w|Anne of Denmark}} is better, and equal, a few names '''withdrawn''', to any of the contemporaneous poetry of France.}}
### To remove (a [[topic]]) from [[discussion]] or [[inquiry]].
### To [[stop#Verb|stop]] (a [[course of action]], [[proceeding#Noun|proceedings]], etc.)
###* {{RQ:Dickens Sketches by Boz|volume=II|title=The Steam Excursion|page=285|passage=The question was put that "The Endeavour" be hired for the occasion; Mr. Alexander Briggs moved as an amendment, that the word "Fly" be substituted for the word "Endeavour;" but after some debate consented to '''withdraw''' his opposition.}}
### To [[take back]] (a [[comment#Noun|comment]], something [[write#Verb|written]], etc.); to [[recant]], to retract.
###: {{synonyms|en|unsay|Thesaurus:recant}}
###: {{ux|en|to '''withdraw''' false charges}}
###* {{RQ:Dickens Pickwick Papers|chapter=The Pickwickians|page=4|passage=Mr. {{smallcaps|Blotton}} would only say then, that he repelled the hon. gen's false and scurrilous accusation, with profound contempt. (Great cheering.) The hon. gent. was a humbug. {{...}} The {{smallcaps|Chairman}} was quite sure the hon. Pickwickian would '''withdraw''' the expression he had just made use of. / Mr. {{smallcaps|Blotton}}, with all possible respect for the chair, was quite sure he would not.}}
## {{lb|en|archaic|or|obsolete}} To [[distract#Verb|distract]] or [[divert]] (someone) from a course of action, a [[goal#Noun|goal]], etc.
##* {{RQ:Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida Q1|act=V|scene=iv|page=90|passage=I doe not flie, but aduantagious care, / '''VVith-drevv''' me from the [[odds|ods]] of multitude, {{...}}}}
##* {{RQ:Hobbes Leviathan|chapter=Of the Vertues Commonly Called Intellectual; and Their Contrary Defects|page=33|passage={{...}} Puſillanimity; by vvhich that ſeems great to him, vvhich other men think a trifle: and vvhatſoever is nevv, or great, and therefore thought fit to be told, '''vvithdravves''' a man by degrees from the intended vvay of his diſcourſe.}}
##* {{RQ:Milton Paradise Lost|book=VII|lines=608–613|page=204|passage=VVho can impair thee, mighty King, or bound / Thy Empire? eaſily the proud attempt / Of Spirits apoſtat and thir Counſels vaine / Thou haſt repeld, vvhile impiouſly they thought / Thee to diminiſh, and from thee '''vvithdravv''' / The number of thy vvorſhippers.|year=1873}}
## {{lb|en|banking|finance}} To [[extract#Verb|extract]] ([[money#Noun|money]]) from a [[bank account]] or other [[financial#Adjective|financial]] [[deposit#Noun|deposit]].
##: {{ant|en|deposit#Verb}}
##* {{RQ:Adam Smith Wealth of Nations|volume=I|chapter=Of the Accumulation of Capital, or of Productive and Unproductive Labour|page=403|passage=VVhatever part of his ſtock a man employs as a capital, he alvvays expects is to be replaced to him vvith a profit. {{...}} VVhenever he employs any part of it in maintaining unproductive hands of any kind, that part is, from that moment, '''vvithdravvn''' from his capital, and placed in his ſtock reſerved for immediate conſumption.}}
# {{lb|en|intransitive}}
## ''Chiefly followed by'' '''[[from]]''': to [[leave#Verb|leave]] a [[place#Noun|place]], someone's [[presence]], etc., to [[go#Verb|go]] to another [[room#Noun|room]] or place.
##* {{RQ:Holinshed Chronicles|volume=II|chapter=King [[w:Edward III of England|Edward the Thirde]]|page=897|column=2|passage=[The] army togither with the kyng of Scottes and the other Lordes there founde, entred Scotland, and did muche hurte in the country of Galloway, deſtroying towns and all that they found abroade, but the people were fled and '''withdrawen''' out of theyr way. And when they had taken their pleaſure, the Kyng of Scottes retourned backe to Carleil.}}
##* {{RQ:Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing Q|act=V|scene=iv|page=72|passage=VVell daughter, and you gentlevvomen all, / '''VVithdravv''' into a chamber by your ſelues, / And vvhen I ſend for you come hither masked: {{...}}}}
##* {{RQ:Wood Athenae Oxonienses|volume=II|chapter=Fasti Oxonienses|column=711|passage=&#91;[[w:Adrian Scrope (Royalist)|Adrian Scrope]]&#93; did moſt loyally attend his Majeſty at the fight at ''Edghill'', vvhere receiving ſeveral vvounds, vvas left among the dead, as a dead perſon, there, but recovered by the immortal Dr. [[w:William Harvey|''VVill''[''iam''] ''Harvey'']], vvho vvas there, but '''vvithdravvn''' under a hedge vvith the Prince and Duke, vvhile the battel vvas in its height.}}
##* {{RQ:Dryden Aeneis|book=6|lines=91–92|page=371|passage=They [the doves] fed, and flutt'ring by degrees, '''vvithdrevv''' / Still further from the Place; but ſtill in vievv.}}
##* {{RQ:Spectator|author=Addison|issue=108|date=4 July 1711|page=84|passage=Upon '''withdrawing''' to my room after dinner, I was secretly touched with compassion towards the honest gentleman that had dined with us; {{...}}}}
##* {{RQ:Sale Koran|chapter=CXIV|title=Men; where It was Revealed is Disputed|page=508|passage=Say, I fly for refuge unto the {{smallcaps|Lord}} of men, the king of men, the God of men, ''that he may deliver me'' from the miſchief of the vvhiſperer vvho ſlily '''vvithdravveth''', vvho vvhiſpereth evil ſuggeſtions into the breatſs of men; from genii to men.}}
##* {{RQ:Fielding Tom Jones|volume=VI|book=XVIII|chapter=In Which the History is Concluded|page=298|passage=''Sophia'' novv took the firſt Opportunity of '''vvithdravving''' vvith the Ladies, and the Squire ſat in to his Cups, {{...}}}}
##* {{RQ:Cowper Poems|poem=Retirement|page=280|passage=A man vvhom marks of condeſcending grace / Teach, vvhile they flatter him, his proper place, / VVho comes vvhen call'd, and at a vvord '''vvithdravvs''', / Speaks vvith reſerve, and liſtens vvith applauſe, {{...}}}}
##* {{RQ:Scott Lady of the Lake|stanza=III|page=131|passage=For Douglas, to his promise true, / That morning from the island '''vvithdrevv''', / And in a deep sequestered dell / Had sought a low and lonely cell.}}
##* {{RQ:Bulwer-Lytton Pelham|volume=III|chapter=III|page=58|passage=I answered so coldly and almost haughtily, that Ellen coloured, and said, with some dignity, that she should join Lady Roseville. I bowed slightly, and she '''withdrew''' to the countess.}}
### {{lb|en|specifically|military}} Of [[soldier#Noun|soldiers]]: to leave a battle or position where they are stationed; to [[retreat#Verb|retreat]].
###* {{RQ:Shakespeare Richard 3 Q1|act=V|scene=vii|page=101|passage=''King'' A horſe, a horſe, my kingdome for a horſe. / [[w:William Catesby|[''Sir William''] ''Cateſ''[''by'']]]. '''VVithdravv''' my lord, Ile helpe you to a horſe.}}
###* {{RQ:Dryden Aeneis|book=11|lines=558–559|page=554|passage=I beg your Greatneſs not to give the Lavv / In others Realms, but, beaten, to '''vvithdravv'''.}}
###* {{RQ:Tatler|author=Steele|issue=83|date=20 October 1709|page=68|passage=All the forces in the field, both of the enemy and the confederates, are preparing to '''withdraw''' into winter-quarters.}}
## ''Chiefly followed by'' '''from''': to stop [[take part|taking part]] in some [[activity]]; also, to remove oneself from the [[company#Noun|company]] of others, from [[publicity]], etc.
##* {{RQ:Dryden Virgil|chapter=Notes|page=631|passage=I vvill '''vvithdravv''' from your Company; retire to the Shades, and perform my Penance of a Thouſand Years.}}
##* {{RQ:Homer Pope Iliad|volume=I|book=II|page=21|lines=448–449|passage=Novv great ''{{w|Achilles}}'' from our Aid '''vvithdravvs''', / By me provok'd; a Captive Maid the Cauſe: {{...}}}}
## To stop [[talk#Verb|talking]] to or [[interact]]ing with other [[person#Noun|people]] and [[start#Verb|start]] thinking [[thought#Noun|thoughts]] not [[related#Adjective|related]] to what is [[happen]]ing.
## To stop taking an addictive drug or substance; to [[undergo]] [[withdrawal]]. {{defdate|from 20th c.}}
##* {{quote-book|en|author=w:Edward St Aubyn|chapter=5|title=Bad News|location=London|publisher=[[w:Picador (imprint)|Picador]]|year=1992|year_published=2012|page=88|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/badnews0000stau/page/88/mode/1up|isbn=978-1-4472-0295-0|passage=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.}}
## Of a [[man#Noun|man]]: to remove the [[penis]] from a [[partner#Noun|partner]]'s [[body#Noun|body]] [[orifice]] before [[ejaculation]]; to [[engage]] in [[coitus interruptus]].
##* {{quote-book|en|author=w:Debbie Macomber|chapter=1968 [chapter name]|title=Between Friends|location=Don Mills, Ont.|publisher=w:Mira Books|year=2002|page=119|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/betweenfriends00maco/page/119/mode/1up|isbn=978-1-55166-674-7|passage=Like a fool, I agreed to let him make love to me as long as he '''withdrew''' before he ejaculated and he promised he would, but then he didn't.}}

=====Conjugation=====
{{en-conj|old=1|past=withdrew|past_ptc=withdrawn}}

=====Derived terms=====
{{col3|en
|withdrawable
|withdrawal
|withdrawer
|[[withdrawing]] {{qualifier|adjective|noun}}
|withdrawingly
|withdrawingness
|withdrawing room
|[[withdrawment]] {{qualifier|archaic}}
|[[withdrawn]] {{qualifier|adjective}}
|withdrawnness
}}

=====Translations=====
{{trans-top|to draw or pull (something) aside, away, or back from its original position or situation}}
* Belarusian: {{t|be|вывадзі́ць|impf}}, {{t|be|вы́весці|pf}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|отдръпвам}}, {{t+|bg|оттеглям}}
* Catalan: {{t+|ca|retirar}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|撤退|tr=chètuì}}
* Cornish: {{t|kw|denagha}}
* Czech: {{t+|cs|stáhnout}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|terugtrekken}}
* Esperanto: {{t+|eo|retiri}}
* Finnish: {{t|fi|[[vetää]] [[takaisin]]}}, {{t|fi|[[vetää]] [[pois]]}}
* French: {{t+|fr|retirer}}
* Galician: {{t+|gl|retirar}}, {{t+|gl|separar}}, {{t+|gl|afastar}}
* German: {{t+|de|zurückziehen}}
* Greek: {{t+|el|αποσύρομαι}}
*: Ancient: {{t|grc|ὑποχωρέω}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|visszahúz}}, {{t+|hu|elhúz}}, {{t+|hu|behúz}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|ritirare}}, {{t|it|[[tirarsi]] [[indietro]]}}, {{t|it|[[tirare]] [[via]]}}, {{t|it|[[tirare]] [[indietro]]}}
* Japanese: {{t+|ja|引き出す|tr=ひきだす, hikidasu}}
* Korean: {{t+|ko|후퇴하다}}, {{t+|ko|취소하다}}
* Latin: {{t|la|retrahō}}, {{t|la|desciscō}}, {{t|la|recēdō}}, {{t|la|dēcēdō}}
* Maori: {{t|mi|whakatahi}}, {{t|mi|paunu}}, {{t+|mi|unu}}, {{t|mi|kounu}}, {{t|mi|taui}}
* Old English: {{t|ang|oftēon}}
* Old Saxon: {{t|osx|withfahan}}
* Polish: {{t|pl|[[cofać]] [[się]]|impf}}, {{t|pl|[[wycofać]] [[się]]|pf}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|retirar}}
* Romanian: {{t+|ro|retrage}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|выводи́ть|impf}} {{qualifier|transitive}}, {{t+|ru|вы́вести|pf}} {{qualifier|transitive}}, {{t+|ru|отходи́ть|impf}} {{qualifier|intransitive}}, {{t+|ru|отойти́|impf}} {{qualifier|intransitive}}
* Serbo-Croatian:
*: Roman: {{t+|sh|povući|pf}}
* Slovene: {{t|sl|umakniti}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|retirar}}
* Telugu: {{t+|te|ఉపసంహరించు}}
* Ukrainian: {{t|uk|виво́дити|impf}}, {{t|uk|ви́вести|pf}}, {{t+|uk|відхо́дити|impf}}, {{t|uk|відійти́|pf}}
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{{trans-top|to remove (someone or oneself) from a position or situation; to remove (soldiers) from a battle or position where they are stationed}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|отзовавам}}
* Irish: {{t|ga|cúlaigh}}
* Romanian: {{t+|ro|retrage}}
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{{trans-top-also|to take away or take back (something previously given or permitted)|remove|retract}}
* Azerbaijani: {{t|az|[[geri]] [[götürmək]]}}
* Belarusian: {{t|be|забіра́ць|impf}}, {{t|be|забра́ць|pf}}
* Bulgarian: {{t|bg|взимам обратно}}, {{t+|bg|оттеглям}}
* Catalan: {{t+|ca|retirar}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|intrekken}}, {{t+|nl|terugnemen}}
* Esperanto: {{t|eo|retiri}}
* Finnish: {{t|fi|[[ottaa]] [[takaisin]]}}, {{t+|fi|perua}}, {{t|fi|[[vetää]] [[pois]]}}
* French: {{t+|fr|retirer}}
* Galician: {{t+|gl|quitar}}, {{t+|gl|retirar}}, {{t|gl|retractarse}}, {{t+|gl|sacar}}, {{t+|gl|tirar}}
* German: {{t+|de|entziehen}}, {{t+|de|zurücknehmen}}
* Greek: {{t+|el|αποσύρω}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|bevon}}, {{t+|hu|eláll}}, {{t+|hu|elvon}}, {{t+|hu|kivon}}, {{t+|hu|megvon}}, {{t+|hu|visszaszív}}, {{t+|hu|visszavesz}}, {{t+|hu|visszavon}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|interrompere}}, {{t|it|[[prendere]] [[indietro]]}}, {{t|it|rappellare}}, {{t+|it|revocare}}, {{t+|it|rimuovere}}, {{t+|it|ritirare}}
* Japanese: {{t+|ja|引き出す|tr=ひきだす, hikidasu}}, {{t+|ja|引き上げる|tr=ひきあげる, hikiageru}}, {{t+|ja|手を引く|tr=てをひく, te o hiku}}, {{t+|ja|取り消す|tr=とりけす, torikesu}}
* Korean: {{t+|ko|취소하다}}, {{t+|ko|제거하다}}
* Latin: {{t+|la|dētrāhō}}
* Latvian: {{t|lv|atsaukt}}
* Maori: {{t|mi|kounu}}, {{t+|mi|unu}}
* Old English: {{t|ang|oftēon}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|wycofać|pf}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|devolver}}, {{t+|pt|retirar}}
* Russian: {{t|ru|[[брать]] [[наза́д]]|impf}}, {{t+|ru|забира́ть|impf}}, {{t+|ru|забра́ть|pf}}
* Serbo-Croatian:
*: Cyrillic: {{t|sh|по̀вӯћи|pf}}, {{t|sh|ускра́тити|pf}}
*: Roman: {{t+|sh|pòvūći|pf}}, {{t+|sh|uskrátiti|pf}}
* Slovene: {{t|sl|umakniti}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|retirar}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|återta}}, {{t+|sv|dra in}}, {{t|sv|dra tillbaka}}
* Telugu: {{t+|te|ఉపసంహరించు}}
* Ukrainian: {{t|uk|забира́ти|impf}}, {{t|uk|забра́ти}}
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{{trans-top-also|to cause or help (someone) to stop taking an addictive drug or substance|dry out}}
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{{trans-top|to take (one’s eyes) off something}}
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{{trans-top|to disregard (something) as belonging to a certain group}}
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{{trans-top|to remove (a topic) from discussion or inquiry}}
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{{trans-top|to stop (a course of action, proceedings, etc.)}}
* Esperanto: {{t+|eo|retiriĝi}}
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{{trans-see|to take back (a comment, something written, etc.)|recant|retract}}

{{trans-top|to distract or divert (someone) from a course of action, a goal, etc.}}
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{{trans-top|to extract (money) from a bank account or other financial deposit}}
* Arabic: {{t|ar|سَحَبَ}}
* Belarusian: {{t|be|здыма́ць|impf}}, {{t|be|зніма́ць|impf}}, {{t|be|зняць|pf}}, {{t|be|зьняць|pf}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|тегля}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|提款|tr=tíkuǎn}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|afhalen}} {{qualifier|Flanders}}, {{t+|nl|pinnen}} {{qualifier|the Netherlands}}, {{t+|nl|opnemen}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|nostaa}}
* French: {{t+|fr|retirer}}
* Galician: {{t+|gl|sacar}}, {{t+|gl|retirar}}
* Georgian: {{t-needed|ka}}
* German: {{t+|de|abheben}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|kivesz}}, {{t+|hu|felvesz}}
* Irish: {{t|ga|aistarraing}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|prelevare}}, {{t+|it|ritirare}}
* Japanese: {{t+|ja|引き出す|tr=ひきだす, hikidasu}}, {{t+|ja|下ろす|tr=おろす, orosu}}
* Khmer: {{t|km|ដកលុយ}}
* Korean: {{t+|ko|뽑다}}, {{t|ko|추출하다}}
* Lao: {{t-needed|lo}}
* Latvian: {{t|lv|izņemt}}
* Lithuanian: {{t|lt|išsiimti}}
* Maori: {{t|mi|tango}}
* Persian: {{t+|fa|برداشت|s|tr=bardāšt}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|wypłacić|pf}}, {{t+|pl|wypłacać|impf}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|sacar}}, {{t+|pt|levantar}}, {{t+|pt|retirar}}
* Romanian: {{t+|ro|preleva}}, {{t+|ro|retrage}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|снима́ть|impf}}, {{t+|ru|снять|pf}}
* Serbo-Croatian:
*: Roman: {{t|sh|podići|pf}}
* Slovene: {{t+|sl|dvigniti}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|sacar}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|ta ut}}
* Thai: {{t-needed|th}}
* Turkish: {{t+|tr|para çekmek}}
* Ukrainian: {{t|uk|зніма́ти|impf}}, {{t|uk|зня́ти|pf}}
* Vietnamese: {{t|vi|rút tiền}}
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{{trans-top|to leave a place, someone’s presence, etc., to go to another room or place}}
* Esperanto: {{t+|eo|retiriĝi}}
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{{trans-top-also|of soldiers: to leave a battle or position where they are stationed|retreat}}
* Albanian: {{t-needed|sq}}
* Arabic: {{t|ar|تَرَاجَعَ}}
* Armenian: {{t-needed|hy}}
* Azerbaijani: {{t|az|geri çəkilmək}}, {{t+|az|çəkilmək}}
* Belarusian: {{t|be|адступа́ць|impf}}, {{t|be|адступі́ць|pf}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|отстъ́пвам|impf}}, {{t|bg|отстъ́пя|pf}}
* Catalan: {{t|ca|[[retirar]]-[[se]]}}
* Chechen: {{t-needed|ce}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|後退|tr=hòutuì}}, {{t+|cmn|退卻|tr=tuìquè}}, {{t+|cmn|撤退|tr=chètuì}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|terugtrekken}}
* Esperanto: {{t+|eo|retiriĝi}}
* Estonian: {{t-needed|et}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|perääntyä}}, {{t+|fi|vetäytyä}}
* French: {{t+|fr|se retirer}}
* Galician: {{t|gl|retirarse}}
* Georgian: {{t-needed|ka}}
* German: {{t+|de|zurückziehen|alt=sich zurückziehen}}, {{t+|de|abziehen}}
* Greek:
*: Ancient Greek: {{t|grc|ὑπεκχωρέω}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|visszavonul}}, {{t+|hu|kivonul}}, {{t+|hu|kimegy}}, {{t+|hu|meghátrál}}, {{t+|hu|visszalép}}, {{t+|hu|visszahúzódik}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|ritirarsi}}, {{t+|it|retrocedere}}
* Japanese: {{t+|ja|後退|tr=こうたいする, kōtai suru|alt=後退する}}, {{t+|ja|退却|tr=たいきゃくする, taikyaku suru|alt=退却する}}
* Korean: {{t+|ko|후퇴하다}}, {{t|ko|물러서다}}
* Latvian: {{t|lv|atkāpties}}
* Lithuanian: {{t|lt|atsitraukti}}
* Maori: {{t|mi|maunu}}, {{t|mi|whakatahi}}, {{t+|mi|unu}}, {{t|mi|kounu}}, {{t|mi|taui}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|odstępować|impf}}, {{t+|pl|odstąpić|pf}}, {{t+|pl|cofać|impf|alt=cofać się}}, {{t+|pl|wycofywać|impf|alt=wycofywać się}}, {{t+|pl|wycofać|pf|alt=wycofać się}}
* Portuguese: {{t|pt|[[retirar]]-[[se]]}}
* Romanian: {{t-needed|ro}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|отступа́ть|impf}}, {{t+|ru|отступи́ть|pf}}, {{t+|ru|ретирова́ться|impf}}
* Serbo-Croatian:
*: Cyrillic: {{t|sh|по̀вӯћи се|pf}}
*: Roman: {{t|sh|pòvūći se|pf}}
* Slovak: {{t-needed|sk}}
* Slovene: {{t|sl|umikati|impf|alt=umikati se}}, {{t|sl|umakniti|pf|alt=umakniti se}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|retirarse}}
* Turkish: {{t-needed|tr}}
* Ukrainian: {{t|uk|відступа́ти|impf}}, {{t|uk|відступи́ти|pf}}
* Vietnamese: {{t+|vi|rút lui}}
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{{trans-top|to stop taking part in some activity; to remove oneself from the company of others, from publicity, etc.}}
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{{trans-top|to stop talking to or interacting with other people and start thinking thoughts not related to what is happening}}
* Azerbaijani: {{t|az|qapanmaq}}, {{t|az|qınına çəkilmək}}, {{t|az|qınına girmək}}
* Cornish: {{t|kw|denagha}}
* Greek:
*: Ancient: {{t|grc|ἀναχωρέω}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|visszavonul}}, {{t+|hu|visszahúzódik}}, {{t+|hu|elvonul}}, {{t+|hu|bezárkózik}}
* Maori: {{t|mi|whakamōtu}}, {{t|mi|whakatōngā}}
* Serbo-Croatian:
*: Roman: {{t|sh|povući se|pf}}
* Swedish: {{t|sv|dra sig undan}}
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{{trans-top|to stop taking an addictive drug or substance}}
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{{trans-top|of a man: to remove the penis from a partner’s body orifice before ejaculation}}
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* Dutch: {{t+check|nl|terugtreden}}
* French: {{t+check|fr|tirer}}, {{t+check|fr|retirer}}
* Indonesian: {{t-check|id|[[tarik|menarik]]}}, {{t-check|id|[[batal|membatalkan]]}}
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===Etymology 2===
From {{inh|en|enm|withdrawe|t=act of stopping a judicial proceeding}}, from {{m|enm|withdrawen}}, {{m|enm|withdrauen|pos=verb}}:<ref>{{R:MED Online|entry=withdrawe|pos=n|id=MED53020}}</ref> see [[#Etymology 1|etymology 1]].<ref>{{R:OED Online|pos=n|id=229620|date=March 2022}}</ref>

====Noun====
{{en-noun}} {{term-label|en|obsolete}}

# An [[act#Noun|act]] of [[draw back|drawing back]] or [[removing#Noun|removing]]; a [[removal]], a [[withdrawal]] or [[withdrawing#Noun|withdrawing]].
#* {{RQ:Mather Invisible World|chapter=The Tryal of G[eorge] B[urroughs] at a Court of Oyer and Terminer, Held in Salem, 1692|page=101|passage=Indeed one of theſe VVitneſſes vvas over perſvvaded by ſome Perſons, to be out of the vvay, upon ''G. B.''’s Trial; but he came aftervvards, vvith ſorrovv for his '''vvithdravv''', and gave in his Teſtimony: {{...}}}}
# {{lb|en|law}} {{synonym of|en|withdraught|t=a [[dismissal]] of a [[lawsuit]] [[with prejudice]] [[based#Adjective|based]] on a [[plaintiff]]'s withdrawal of the [[suit#Noun|suit]]; a [[retraxit]]; also, a [[fine#Noun|fine]] [[impose]]d on a plaintiff for such a dismissal}}

===References===
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===Further reading===
* {{pedia|withdrawal|withdrawal (disambiguation)}}

{{cln|en|irregular verbs}}