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Proceed vs Withdraw - What's the difference?

proceed | withdraw |

As verbs the difference between proceed and withdraw

is that proceed is to move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to continue or renew motion begun while withdraw is to pull (something) back, aside, or away.

proceed

English

(Webster 1913)

Verb

(en verb)
  • To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to continue or renew motion begun.
    • to proceed on a journey.
  • To pass from one point, topic, or stage, to another.
    • To proceed with a story or argument.
  • To issue or come forth as from a source or origin; to come from.
    • Light proceeds from the sun.
  • To go on in an orderly or regulated manner; to begin and carry on a series of acts or measures; to act by method; to prosecute a design.
  • * John Locke
    • he that proceeds upon other Principles in his Enquiry
  • To be transacted; to take place; to occur.
  • * Shakespeare
    • He will, after his sour fashion, tell you / What hath proceeded worthy note to-day.
  • To have application or effect; to operate.
  • * Ayliffe
    • This rule only proceeds and takes place when a person can not of common law condemn another by his sentence.
  • To begin and carry on a legal process. (rfex)

    • Usage notes

    * This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive . See * Not to be confused with precede. * Many of the other English verbs ultimately derived from Latin are spelled ending in "cede", so the misspelling "procede" is common.

    Synonyms

    * progress

    Antonyms

    * regress * recede

    Related terms

    * procedure * process

    References

    * *

    See also

    * proceeds (noun)

    Anagrams

    * English control 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.