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Withdraw vs Exit - What's the difference?

withdraw | exit |

As a verb withdraw

is to pull (something) back, aside, or away.

As a noun exit is

success.

withdraw

English

Verb

  • To pull (something) back, aside, or away.
  • * Hooker
    • Impossible it is that God should withdraw his presence from anything.
  • To take back (a comment, etc).
    • to withdraw false charges
  • To remove, to stop providing (one's support, etc).
  • To extract (money from an account).
  • To retreat.
  • To be in withdrawal from an addictive drug etc.
  • * 1994 , (Edward St Aubyn), Bad News , Picador 2006, p. 201:
    • 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.

    exit

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A way out.
    • He was looking for the exit and got lost .
  • A passage or gate from inside someplace to the outside, outgang.
    • She stood at the exit of the house looking back and waving at those inside .
  • The action of leaving.
    • He made his exit at the opportune time .
  • Death.
    • The untimely exit of a consummate politician .

    Synonyms

    * (a way out) egress, outgang, outway * (the action of leaving) egress, outgoing, departure

    Derived terms

    * emergency exit * exit interview * exit policy * exit poll * exit program * exit strategy * exit wound * fire exit

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To go out
  • To leave
  • To die

    • See also

    * exit stage left ----