Withdraw vs Exfiltrate - What's the difference?
withdraw | exfiltrate |
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:
(military) To withdraw troops surreptitiously from a dangerous position
As verbs the difference between withdraw and exfiltrate
is that withdraw is to pull (something) back, aside, or away while exfiltrate is (military) to withdraw troops surreptitiously from a dangerous position.As a noun exfiltrate is
that which is exfiltrated, the removed substance or item.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.
