Withdraw vs Confiscate - What's the difference?
withdraw | confiscate |
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:
To use one's authority to lay claim to and separate a possession from its holder.
(obsolete) confiscated; seized and appropriated by the government for public use; forfeit
* Shakespeare
* Shakespeare
In lang=en terms the difference between withdraw and confiscate
is that withdraw is to be in withdrawal from an addictive drug etc while confiscate is to use one's authority to lay claim to and separate a possession from its holder.As verbs the difference between withdraw and confiscate
is that withdraw is to pull (something) back, aside, or away while confiscate is to use one's authority to lay claim to and separate a possession from its holder.As an adjective confiscate is
(obsolete) confiscated; seized and appropriated by the government for public use; forfeit.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.
confiscate
English
Verb
(confiscat)- In schools it is common for teachers to confiscate electronic games and other distractions.
Synonyms
* (take possession of)See also
* confiscationAdjective
(-)- Lest that your goods too soon be confiscate .
- Thy lands and goods / Are, by the laws of Venice, confiscate / Unto the state of Venice.