What is the difference between withdraw and abscond?
withdraw | abscond |
To pull (something) back, aside, or away.
* Hooker
To take back (a comment, etc).
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:
(intransitive, reflexive, archaic) To hide, to be in hiding or concealment.
* 1691-1735 , (John Ray), The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation [http://books.google.com/books?id=rRI5AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA300&dq=intitle:works+of+creation+inauthor:ray&hl=en&sa=X&ei=mpnNUZHMJ4Pu0gGZo4GICw&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAA#v=snippet&q=absconds&f=false]
(reflexive) To flee, often secretly; to steal away, particularly to avoid arrest or prosecution.
* 1848 , (Thomas Babington Macaulay), , Ch. 13
* 1911 , (Ambrose Bierce), (w, The Devil's Dictionary)
To withdraw from.
* 2006 , Richard Rojcewicz, The Gods And Technology: A Reading Of Heidegger , ISBN 0791482308.
* 2009 , Sonia Brill, Relationships Without Anger , ISBN 144902789X.
(obsolete) To conceal; to take away.
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(label) To evade, to hide or flee from.
* 2006 , Aldo E. Chircop, Olof Lindén, Places of Refuge for Ships , ISBN 900414952X.
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As verbs the difference between withdraw and abscond
is that withdraw is {{context|transitive|lang=en}} to pull (something) back, aside, or away while abscond is (intransitive, reflexive, archaic) to hide, to be in hiding or concealment.withdraw
English
Verb
- Impossible it is that God should withdraw his presence from anything.
- to withdraw false charges
- 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.
abscond
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Verb
(en verb)- the Marmotto , live upon its own Fat.
- ... that very homesickness which, in regular armies, drives so many recruits to abscond at the risk of stripes and of death.
- Spring beckons! All things to the call respond;
The trees are leaving and cashiers abscond .
- Modern technology accompanies the absconding of the original attitude.
- You cannot abscond from the responsibility both you and your partner owe to this event, and that includes dealing with anger issues and any other emotional issues that come with it.
- The captain absconded his responsibility
- If the distress situation is solved succesfully, the anonymous shipowner will reap the commercial benefit, if the situation ends in disaster, the shipowner will hide behind an anonymous post box in a foreign country and will abscond responsibility.