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withdraw
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(third-person singular simple present withdraws, present participle withdrawing, simple past withdrew, past participle withdrawn)
- (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.
- 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie
- (intransitive) To stop talking to, or interacting with, other people and start thinking thoughts that are not related to what is happening around.
- (transitive) To take back (a comment, etc); retract.
- to withdraw false charges
- (transitive) To remove, to stop providing (one's support, etc); to take out of service.
- (transitive) To extract (money from an account).
- (intransitive) To retreat.
- (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.
- 1994, Edward St Aubyn, Bad News, Picador 2006, p. 201:
Synonyms
- (take back): recant, unsay; See also Thesaurus:recant
Translations
References
- “withdraw”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
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lower
English
Etymology 1
low +? -er (comparative suffix)
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?l???/
- (US) IPA(key): /?lo??/
- Rhymes: -???(r)
- Rhymes: -a?.?(?)
Adjective
lower
- comparative form of low: more low
- bottom; more towards the bottom than the middle of an object
- Situated on lower ground, nearer a coast, or more southerly.
- (geology, of strata or geological time periods) older
Antonyms
- (more low): higher
- (bottom): upper
- (older): upper
Derived terms
Translations
Adverb
lower
- comparative form of low: more low
Verb
lower (third-person singular simple present lowers, present participle lowering, simple past and past participle lowered)
- (transitive) To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down
- lower a bucket into a well
- to lower a sail of a boat
- (transitive) to pull down
- to lower a flag
- 1833 (first publication), Alfred Tennyson, A Dream of Fair Women
- Lower'd softly with a threefold cord of love
Down to a silent grave.
- Lower'd softly with a threefold cord of love
- (transitive) To reduce the height of
- lower a fence or wall
- lower a chimney or turret
- (transitive) To depress as to direction
- lower the aim of a gun
- (transitive) To make less elevated
- to lower one's ambition, aspirations, or hopes
- (transitive) To reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of
- lower the temperature
- lower one's vitality
- lower distilled liquors
- (transitive) To bring down; to humble
- lower one's pride
- (reflexive) (lower oneself) To humble oneself; to do something one considers to be beneath one's dignity.
- I could never lower myself enough to buy second-hand clothes.
- (transitive) To reduce (something) in value, amount, etc.
- lower the price of goods
- lower the interest rate
- (intransitive) To fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease
- The river lowered as rapidly as it rose.
- (intransitive) To decrease in value, amount, etc.
Synonyms
- (let (something) descend by its own weight, such as a bucket or sail): bring down
- (reduce the height of, as a fence or chimney): shorten
- (depress as to direction, as a gun):
- (make less elevated as to object, as ambitions or hopes): reduce
- (reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of, as temperature): reduce, turn down
- (transitive: to humble):
- (reflexive: to humble oneself): be humble
- (reduce (something) in value, amount, etc): cut, reduce
- (intransitive: grow less): die off, drop, fall, fall off, shrink
- (intransitive: decrease in value): become/get smaller, become/get lower, lessen, reduce
Derived terms
- lower the boom
- lower the tone
Translations
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?la??/, /?la?.?/
- (US) IPA(key): /?la??/, /?la?.?/
Verb
lower (third-person singular simple present lowers, present participle lowering, simple past and past participle lowered)
- Alternative spelling of lour
Related terms
- loweringly
Anagrams
- owler, rowel
Scanian
Etymology
From Old Norse lágr, from Proto-Germanic *l?gaz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [lé???], [l?????]
Adjective
lower m
- low
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