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Withdraw vs Surrender - What's the difference?

withdraw | surrender |

In transitive terms the difference between withdraw and surrender

is that withdraw is to extract (money from an account) while surrender is to give up possession of; to yield; to resign.

As a noun surrender is

an act of surrendering, submission into the possession of another; abandonment, resignation.

withdraw

English

Verb

  • To pull (something) back, aside, or away.
  • * Hooker
  • Impossible it is that God should withdraw his presence from anything.
  • To take back (a comment, etc).
  • to withdraw false charges
  • 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:
  • 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.

    surrender

    English

    Alternative forms

    * surrendre (archaic)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To give up into the power, control, or possession of another; specifically (military) to yield (a town, a fortification, etc.) to an enemy.
  • (intransitive, or, reflexive) To give oneself up into the power of another, especially as a prisoner; to submit or give in.
  • I surrender !
  • To give up possession of; to yield; to resign.
  • to surrender a right, privilege, or advantage
  • (reflexive) To yield (oneself) to an influence, emotion, passion, etc.
  • ''to surrender oneself to grief, to despair, to indolence, or to sleep
  • To abandon (one's hand of cards) and recover half of the initial bet.
  • Synonyms

    * (l), (l) * wave the white flag

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of surrendering, submission into the possession of another; abandonment, resignation.
  • The yielding or delivery of a possession in response to a demand.
  • (legal, property law) The yielding of the leasehold estate by the lessee to the landlord, so that the tenancy for years merges in the reversion and no longer exists.
  • Synonyms

    * capitulation