Withdraw vs Endure - What's the difference?
withdraw | endure |
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 continue or carry on, despite obstacles or hardships.
To tolerate or put up with something unpleasant.
To last.
* Bible, Job viii. 15
To remain firm, as under trial or suffering; to suffer patiently or without yielding; to bear up under adversity; to hold out.
* Bible, Ezekiel xxii. 14
To suffer patiently.
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(obsolete) To indurate.
In transitive terms the difference between withdraw and endure
is that withdraw is to extract (money from an account) while endure is to suffer patiently.In intransitive terms the difference between withdraw and endure
is that withdraw is to be in withdrawal from an addictive drug etc while endure is to last.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.
endure
English
Alternative forms
* enduer (obsolete) * indure (obsolete)Verb
- The singer's popularity endured for decades.
- Our love will endure forever.
- He shall hold it [his house] fast, but it shall not endure .
- Can thine heart endure , or can thine hands be strong in the days that I shall deal with thee?
- He endured years of pain.
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