different between withdraw vs abduce

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(third-person singular simple present withdraws, present participle withdrawing, simple past withdrew, past participle withdrawn)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

Translations

References

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

English

Etymology

(1530's) From Latin abd?c? (“lead away”), formed from ab (“from, away from”) + d?c? (“lead”).

• See duke, and compare abduct.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b.?dju?s/, (colloquial) /?b.?d?u?s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /æb.?dus/, /æb.?djus/, /?b.?dus/, /?b.?djus/
• Rhymes: -u?s

Verb

abduce (third-person singular simple present abduces, present participle abducing, simple past and past participle abduced)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To draw; to conduct away; to take away; to withdraw; to draw to a different part; to move a limb out away from the center of the body;abduct. [Mid 16^th century.]

   • If we abduce the eye unto either corner, the object will not duplicate. - Sir T. Browne

2. (transitive) To draw a conclusion, especially in metanalysis; to deduce. [Mid 20^th century.]

Related terms

• abduct
• abduction
• abductive

Translations

References

Italian

Verb

abduce

1. third-person singular present indicative of abdurre

Latin

Verb

abd?ce

1. second-person singular present active imperative of abd?c?

Spanish

Verb

abduce

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of abducir.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of abducir.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of abducir.