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Withdraw vs Withdrawable - What's the difference?

withdraw | withdrawable |

As a verb withdraw

is to pull (something) back, aside, or away.

As an adjective withdrawable is

capable of being withdrawn.

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.

    withdrawable

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Capable of being withdrawn.
  • * 2003 , Paul S. Turner, Diane B. Wunnicke, Managing the Risks of Payment Systems (page 120)
    • The bank receives a payment order instructing the bank to pay Creditor X. The bank executes the order in reliance on there being sufficient withdrawable funds in the customer's account to cover the order.