Withdraw vs Disown - What's the difference?
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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 refuse to own or to refuse to acknowledge one’s own.
Withdraw is a related term of disown.
As verbs the difference between withdraw and disown
is that withdraw is to pull (something) back, aside, or away while disown is to refuse to own or to refuse to acknowledge one’s own.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.
disown
English
Verb
(en verb)- Lord Capulet and his wife threatened to ''disown'' their daughter Juliet if she didn't go through with marrying Count Paris.