Give_up vs Withdraw - What's the difference?

Give_up is a related term of withdraw.

In lang=en terms the difference between give_up and withdraw

is that give_up is to admit defeat, to capitulate while withdraw is to be in withdrawal from an addictive drug etc.

As verbs the difference between give_up and withdraw

is that give_up is to surrender (someone or something) while withdraw is to pull (something) back, aside, or away.

give_up

English

Verb

To surrender (someone or something).

He was surrounded, so gave''' himself '''up .

They gave''' him '''up to the police.

To stop or quit (an activity, etc).

They gave up the search when it got dark.

To relinquish (something).

He gave up his seat to an old man.

* 1816 , (Jane Austen), , Volume 1, Chapter 7:

"Dear Miss Woodhouse, I would not give up the pleasure and honour of being intimate with you for any thing in the world."

To lose hope concerning (someone or something).

They gave him up for dead.

To abandon (someone or something).

I gave up my faith years ago.

To admit defeat, to capitulate.

OK, I give up , you win.

Synonyms

* surrender, yield * blin, cease, discontinue * forlend, surrender, yield * * desert, forlet, forsake * capitulate, surrender, wave the white flag

Anagrams

* English phrasal 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.