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Withdraw vs Backdown - What's the difference?

withdraw | backdown |

As a verb withdraw

is to pull (something) back, aside, or away.

As a noun backdown is

an act of backing down; a retraction or withdrawal.

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.

    backdown

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of backing down; a retraction or withdrawal.