Withdraw vs Untell - What's the difference?
withdraw | untell |
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 withdraw or retract (something told); never to have told.
* 1607 , Thomas Heywood, A Woman Killed with Kindness
* 1993 , Jack Selzer, Understanding scientific prose (page 54)
* 1998 , Diane DuBose Brunner, Between the masks: resisting the politics of essentialism (page 29)
* 2004 , Patrick Bizzaro, More lights than one: on the fiction of Fred Chappell (page 103)
In lang=en terms the difference between withdraw and untell
is that withdraw is to be in withdrawal from an addictive drug etc while untell is to withdraw or retract (something told); never to have told.As verbs the difference between withdraw and untell
is that withdraw is to pull (something) back, aside, or away while untell is to withdraw or retract (something told); never to have told.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.
untell
English
Verb
- That Time could turn up his swift sandy glass, / To untell the days, and to redeem these hours.
- Narrative untells itself by multiplying itself into discontinuous "turns" that cannot be resolved into a continuous story.
- Trinh (1991) writes that untelling the stories of privilege and marginality is a form of displacement that takes a long time.
- And once his story was told, it was told; there was no way to untell it, no way to make himself look good.
