Withdraw vs Desocialize - What's the difference?
withdraw | desocialize |
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 take out of a social context; individualize.
*2008 , Jonathan Alexander, Literacy, Sexuality, Pedagogy: Theory and Practice for Composition Studies
*:As we desocialize sex and sexuality as purely personal aspects of existence, we begin to see how sexuality is tied to a number of norms...
To cause to withdraw from society.
*2004 , Arden et al'', ''The Angell Memorial Animal Hospital Book of Wellness and Preventive Care
*:By twelve weeks puppies enter the juvenile stage, and it is at this stage that a negative experience can desocialize the pup.
To cause to cease to be politically socialist.
*1975 , A P J Van Rensburg, Contemporary Leaders of Africa
*:It was a painful process to desocialize and rehabilitate the Malian economy.
In transitive terms the difference between withdraw and desocialize
is that withdraw is to extract (money from an account) while desocialize is to cause to cease to be politically socialist.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.