Withdraw vs Overturn - What's the difference?
withdraw | overturn |
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 turn over, capsize or upset (something)
To overthrow or destroy something
(legal) To reverse a decision; to overrule or rescind
To diminish the significance of a previous defeat by winning; to comeback from.
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=April 10
, author=Alistair Magowan
, title=Aston Villa 1 - 0 Newcastle
, work=BBC Sport
As verbs the difference between withdraw and overturn
is that withdraw is to pull (something) back, aside, or away while overturn is to turn over, capsize or upset (something).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.
overturn
English
Verb
(en verb)citation, page= , passage=Villa spent most of the second period probing from wide areas and had a succession of corners but despite their profligacy they will be glad to overturn the 6-0 hammering they suffered at St James' Park in August following former boss Martin O'Neill's departure }}