Interpose vs Withdraw - What's the difference?

In transitive terms the difference between interpose and withdraw

is that interpose is to interrupt a conversation by introducing a different subject or making a comment while withdraw is to extract (money from an account).

In intransitive terms the difference between interpose and withdraw

is that interpose is to intervene in a dispute, or in a conversation while withdraw is to be in withdrawal from an addictive drug etc.

interpose

English

Verb

(en-verb)

To insert something (or oneself) between other things.

to interpose a screen between the eye and the light

* Cowper

Mountains interposed / Make enemies of nations.

* Shakespeare

What watchful cares do interpose themselves / Betwixt your eyes and night?

To interrupt a conversation by introducing a different subject or making a comment.

(Milton)

To be inserted between parts or things; to come between.

* Cowper

long hid by interposing hill or wood.

To intervene in a dispute, or in a conversation.

Synonyms

* insert * (To interrupt a conversation by introducing a different subject or making a comment) interrupt

Anagrams

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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.