Withdraw vs Repay - What's the difference?
withdraw | repay |
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 pay back.
As verbs the difference between withdraw and repay
is that withdraw is to pull (something) back, aside, or away while repay is to pay back.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.
repay
English
Verb
- I finally repaid my student loans, just before sending my kids to college.