Withdraw vs Reject - What's the difference?
withdraw | reject |
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 refuse to accept.
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(basketball) To block a shot, especially if it sends the ball off the court.
In transitive terms the difference between withdraw and reject
is that withdraw is to extract (money from an account) while reject is to refuse to accept.As a noun reject is
something that is rejected.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.