different between disjoin vs withdraw

English

Etymology

From Middle English disjoynen, from Old French desjoindre, from Latin disiungere (“to separate”), from dis-, di- (“apart”) + iungere (“to join”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d?s?d???n/
• Rhymes: -??n

Verb

disjoin (third-person singular simple present disjoins, present participle disjoining, simple past and past participle disjoined)

1. (transitive) To separate; to disunite.
   • 1708, Joseph Addison, The Present State of the War, and the Necessity of an Augmentation

     Never let us lay down our arms against France, till we have utterly disjoined her from the Spanish monarchy.

   • 1790, Thomas Pennant, Account Of London

     Windmill Street consisted of disjoined houses.

2. (intransitive) To become separated.

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Further reading

• disjoin in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• disjoin in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• disjoin at OneLook Dictionary Search

English

Etymology

From Middle English withdrawen (“to draw away, draw back”), from with- (“away, back”) + drawen (“to draw”). More at with-, draw.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /w?ð?d???/, /w???d???/
• Rhymes: -??

Verb

withdraw (third-person singular simple present withdraws, present participle withdrawing, simple past withdrew, past participle withdrawn)

1. (transitive) To pull (something) back, aside, or away.
   • 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie

     Impossible it is that God should withdraw his presence from anything.

2. (intransitive) To stop talking to, or interacting with, other people and start thinking thoughts that are not related to what is happening around.
3. (transitive) To take back (a comment, etc); retract.

   to withdraw false charges

4. (transitive) To remove, to stop providing (one's support, etc); to take out of service.
5. (transitive) To extract (money from an account).
6. (intransitive) To retreat.
7. (intransitive) To be in withdrawal from an addictive drug etc. [from 20th c.]
   • 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.

Synonyms

• (take back): recant, unsay; See also Thesaurus:recant

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References

• “withdraw”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.