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Retreating vs Withdrawing - What's the difference?

retreating | withdrawing | Related terms |

As verbs the difference between retreating and withdrawing

is that retreating is present participle of lang=en while withdrawing is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between retreating and withdrawing

is that retreating is the act of moving back from something; a retreat while withdrawing is withdrawal.

retreating

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of moving back from something; a retreat.
  • * 1837 , Thomas Carlyle, ?Henry Duff Traill, The French Revolution: A History (volume 3, page 229)
    • But of the marchings and retreatings of these Six-thousand no Xenophon exists. Nothing, but an inarticulate hum, of cursing and sooty frenzy, surviving dubious in the memory of ages!

    withdrawing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • withdrawal
  • * 1870 , Patrick Barry, Wealth and Poverty considered (page 143)
    • The first gold transaction, to four-fifths of its amount, would be by direct withdrawings of coin or bullion from the Bank of England.