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Withdrawn   /wɪθdrˈɔn/  /wɪðdrˈɔn/   Listen
verb
Withdraw  v. t.  (past withdrew; past part. withdrawn; pres. part. withdrawing)  
1.
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. "Impossible it is that God should withdraw his presence from anything."
2.
To take back; to recall or retract; as, to withdraw false charges.



Withdraw  v. i.  (past withdrew; past part. withdrawn; pres. part. withdrawing)  To retire; to retreat; to quit a company or place; to go away; as, he withdrew from the company. "When the sea withdrew."
Synonyms: To recede; retrograde; go back.






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"Withdrawn" Quotes from Famous Books



... Hetty drew a long breath. Then, having waited while the ladder too was withdrawn, she fetched back the children and set them before ...
— Hetty Wesley • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... his own experiences perpetually, not having had any experience of life, and in these, his latest plays, he also uses when he can his own experiences to give his pictures of the world from which he had withdrawn, some sense of vivid life. For example, in "Winter's Tale" his account of the death of the boy Mamillius is evidently a reflex of his own emotion when he lost his son, Hamnet, an emotion which at the time he pictured deathlessly in Arthur and ...
— The Man Shakespeare • Frank Harris

... any other) an apology might be expected for this work, is, that it has freely tested by the standard of (p. vi) truth those delineations of Henry's character which have contributed to immortalize our great historical dramatist. The Author, indeed, is willing to confess that he would gladly have withdrawn from the task of assaying the substantial accuracy and soundness of Shakspeare's historical and biographical views, could he have done so safely and without a compromise of principle. He would have avoided such an inquiry, not ...
— Henry of Monmouth, Volume 1 - Memoirs of Henry the Fifth • J. Endell Tyler

... instrument should point downward and slightly inward going into the paunch. With much promptness the canula or the quill should be pushed down into the paunch and held there till the gas escapes. Before the tube is withdrawn the contents of the paunch that have risen in the same should ...
— Clovers and How to Grow Them • Thomas Shaw

... attention was directed to affairs of state, and thus withdrawn from his daughter, who lived and bloomed with ...
— After Long Years and Other Stories • Translated from the German by Sophie A. Miller and Agnes M. Dunne


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