Forego vs Withdraw - What's the difference?

forego | withdraw |

As verbs the difference between forego and withdraw

is that forego is to precede, to go before while withdraw is to pull (something) back, aside, or away.

forego

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) .

Verb

To precede, to go before.

* Wordsworth

pleasing remembrance of a thought foregone

Usage notes

* The sense to precede'' is usually found in the form of the participles ''foregone'' (especially in the phrase "a foregone conclusion") and ''foregoing (usually used either attributively, as in "the foregoing discussion", or substantively, as in "subject to the foregoing").

Etymology 2

See forgo

Verb

; to abandon, to relinquish

* 1762 Waller, T. The White Witch of the Wood, or the Devil of Broxbon'', in ''The Beauties of all the Magazines Selected, for the Year 1762 , Vol. I (February), page 34:

[…] for on no other terms does she desire a reconciliation, but will sooner forego all the hopes to which her birth entitles her, and get her bread by service, than ever yield to become the wife of the ——.

Usage notes

* Many writers prefer the spelling forgo on the grounds that it avoids ambiguity.

References

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Anagrams

* English irregular verbs

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.