Withdraw vs Go_back - What's the difference?
withdraw | go_back | Synonyms |
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 return to a place after having been there at a previous time.
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(of two or more persons) To have known each other for a certain length of time.
To abandon, desert, betray or fail someone or something.
Withdraw is a synonym of go_back.
In lang=en terms the difference between withdraw and go_back
is that withdraw is to be in withdrawal from an addictive drug etc while go_back is to return to a place after having been there at a previous time.As verbs the difference between withdraw and go_back
is that withdraw is to pull (something) back, aside, or away while go_back is to return to a place after having been there at a previous time.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.
go_back
English
Verb
- He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance.she found her mother standing up before the seat on which she had sat all the evening searching anxiously for her with her eyes, and her father by her side.
- Bill and I go back to college.
- You promised me that you'd pay up today, no going back on your word.