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Subsumed vs Withdraw - What's the difference?

subsumed | withdraw |

As verbs the difference between subsumed and withdraw

is that subsumed is past tense of subsume while withdraw is to pull (something) back, aside, or away.

subsumed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (subsume)

    • subsume

    English

    Verb

    (subsum)
  • To place (any one cognition) under another as belonging to it; to include or contain under something else.
  • * 1961 : J. A. Philip. Mimesis in the ''Sophistês'' of Plato . In: Proceedings and Transactions of the American Philological Association 92. p. 453--468.
    • no allusion is made to forms because Plato is subsuming under the class of productive crafts both divine and human imitation;
  • To consider an occurrence as part of a principle or rule; to colligate

    • Related terms

    * subsumption

    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.