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Withdrawn   /wɪθdrˈɔn/  /wɪðdrˈɔn/   Listen
Withdrawn

adjective
1.
Withdrawn from society; seeking solitude.  Synonyms: recluse, reclusive.
2.
Tending to reserve or introspection.  Synonym: indrawn.


Withdraw

verb
(past withdrew; past part. withdrawn; pres. part. withdrawing)
1.
Pull back or move away or backward.  Synonyms: draw back, move back, pull away, pull back, recede, retire, retreat.  "The limo pulled away from the curb"
2.
Withdraw from active participation.  Synonym: retire.
3.
Release from something that holds fast, connects, or entangles.  Synonym: disengage.  "Disengage the gears"
4.
Cause to be returned.  Synonyms: call back, call in, recall.  "The manufacturer tried to call back the spoilt yoghurt"
5.
Take back what one has said.  Synonyms: swallow, take back, unsay.
6.
Keep away from others.  Synonyms: seclude, sequester, sequestrate.
7.
Break from a meeting or gathering.  Synonyms: adjourn, retire.  "The men retired to the library"
8.
Retire gracefully.  Synonym: bow out.
9.
Remove (a commodity) from (a supply source).  Synonyms: draw, draw off, take out.  "The doctors drew medical supplies from the hospital's emergency bank"
10.
Lose interest.  Synonym: retire.
11.
Make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity.  Synonyms: back away, back out, crawfish, crawfish out, pull back, pull in one's horns, retreat.  "He backed out of his earlier promise" , "The aggressive investment company pulled in its horns"
12.
Remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract.  Synonyms: remove, take, take away.  "Remove a wrapper" , "Remove the dirty dishes from the table" , "Take the gun from your pocket" , "This machine withdraws heat from the environment"



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"Withdrawn" Quotes from Famous Books



... his nature which would have attracted her had she been willing to allow it to do so. Now, though he had said nothing to rouse it, the feeling had grown stronger. Then she remembered with a curious smile her father's indignation when Vane had withdrawn from the field. He had done this because she had appealed to his generosity, and she had been grateful to him; but, unreasonable as she admitted the faint resentment she was conscious of to be, the recollection of the fact that he had yielded to her ...
— Vane of the Timberlands • Harold Bindloss
... says Barnes, "replied for a time, and were then withdrawn to cool." Probably the experience of the veteran troops knew that they would soon be needed for closer work. The men lay crouching behind rocks and hiding in hollows, from the iron tempest which drove over the hill, ...
— Hidden Treasures - Why Some Succeed While Others Fail • Harry A. Lewis
... alone, leaving the girl on the other side, and waited till she had withdrawn the bridge, when he returned to the mouth of the outer cave, and sat down to continue the perusal of his roll. Branwen meanwhile returned to the inner cave, or store, and sat down to meditate on thoughts which had been awakened by the Hebrew's reference to the All-seeing One. She wondered ...
— The Hot Swamp • R.M. Ballantyne
... the pirate boats to withdraw further back, which they did after he had passed his word that he would confer with them again in a quarter of an hour, after he had heard what their envoy had to say. When they had withdrawn out of gunshot, their scarlet suits glowing like two patches of blood on the water, then Lancelot, still bidding our line to be on guard against any surprise, withdrew with me and the clergyman and two or three of our friends a ...
— Marjorie • Justin Huntly McCarthy
... Christ.—When Christ came upon earth He found that the rich and educated classes had largely withdrawn from all intercourse with those whom they considered beneath them. He also saw that the tone of society was arrogant and that of moral restraint there was none at all or it was exceedingly weak. The situation was such ...
— Studies in the Life of the Christian • Henry T. Sell


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