withdraw

Meanings

• pull back or move away or backward
• withdraw from active participation
• release from something that holds fast, connects, or entangles
• cause to be returned
• take back what one has said
• keep away from others
• break from a meeting or gathering
• retire gracefully
• remove (a commodity) from (a supply source)
• lose interest
• make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity
• remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract
  • "This machine withdraws heat from the environment"

Synonyms

adjourn, back away, back out, bow out, call back, call in, crawfish, crawfish out, disengage, draw, draw back, draw off, move back, pull away, pull back, pull in one's horns, recall, recede, remove, retire, retreat, seclude, sequester, sequestrate, swallow, take, take away, take back, take out, unsay