different between withdraw vs retrocede

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(third-person singular simple present withdraws, present participle withdrawing, simple past withdrew, past participle withdrawn)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

From retro- +? cede.

Verb

retrocede (third-person singular simple present retrocedes, present participle retroceding, simple past and past participle retroceded)

1. (transitive) To grant back.

2. (intransitive) To go back.
   • 1994, David F Drake, Reforming the health care market: an interpretive economic history

     Hospitals retrenched in the '30s while the general practitioners retroceded into a bygone era.

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?de

Verb

retrocede

1. third-person singular present indicative of retrocedere

Anagrams

• decorrete
• decreterò
• detorcere

Latin

Verb

retr?c?de

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

Portuguese

Verb

retrocede

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of retroceder
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of retroceder

Spanish

Verb

retrocede

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