Withdraw vs Draw_off - What's the difference?
withdraw | draw_off | Related terms |
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:
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
- 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.