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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(third-person singular simple present withdraws, present participle withdrawing, simple past withdrew, past participle withdrawn)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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untell
English
Etymology
un- +? tell
Verb
untell (third-person singular simple present untells, present participle untelling, simple past and past participle untold)
- (transitive) To withdraw or retract (something told); never to have told.
- 1993, Jack Selzer, Understanding scientific prose (page 54)
- Narrative untells itself by multiplying itself into discontinuous "turns" that cannot be resolved into a continuous story.
- 1998, Diane DuBose Brunner, Between the masks: resisting the politics of essentialism (page 29)
- Trinh (1991) writes that untelling the stories of privilege and marginality is a form of displacement that takes a long time.
- 2004, Patrick Bizzaro, More lights than one: on the fiction of Fred Chappell (page 103)
- And once his story was told, it was told; there was no way to untell it, no way to make himself look good.
- 1993, Jack Selzer, Understanding scientific prose (page 54)
- (transitive, archaic) To undo or reverse the counting of; to count back.
- 1607, Thomas Heywood, A Woman Killed with Kindness
- That Time could turn up his swift sandy glass, / To untell the days, and to redeem these hours.
- 1607, Thomas Heywood, A Woman Killed with Kindness
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