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Withdraw vs Draw_off - What's the difference?

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Withdraw is a related term of draw_off.


As verbs the difference between withdraw and draw_off

is that withdraw is to pull (something) back, aside, or away while draw_off is (idiomatic) to remove by using a siphon.

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.

    draw_off

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (idiomatic) To remove by using a siphon.
  • English phrasal verbs