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Answer for the clue "Sense hard tie: pull out ", 8 letters:
withdraw

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Word definitions for withdraw in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Withdraw \With*draw"\ (w[i^ th]*dr[add]"), v. t. [imp. Withdrew (-dr[udd]"); p. p. Withdrawn (-dr[add]n"); p. pr. & vb. n. Withdrawing .] [With against + draw.] To take back or away, as what has been bestowed or enjoyed; to draw back; to cause to move away ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To pull (something) back, aside, or away. 2 (context transitive English) To take back (a comment, etc). 3 (context transitive English) To remove, to stop providing (one's support, etc). 4 (context transitive English) To ...

Usage examples of withdraw.

It has been subsequently held many times that municipal corporations are mere instrumentalities of the State for the more convenient administration of local governments, whose powers may be enlarged, abridged, or entirely withdrawn at the pleasure of the legislature.

Union, or Confederation, under altered conditions, by the majority which should accede to them, with a recognition of the right of the recusant minority to withdraw, secede, or stand aloof.

Will you suffer me therefore to beg, unless any consideration restrains you, that you would be pleased to acquaint me what motives have induced you thus to withdraw from the society of mankind, and to betake yourself to a course of life to which it sufficiently appears you were not born?

Breteuil was obliged to withdraw his opposition, and to acquiesce in this violence.

His lordship adduced examples from history, to show that the principle of change had been often acknowledged, and the suffrage withdrawn and conferred on various occasions.

Normally the adjudication committee would have refused to allow them to withdraw, but I requested they bend the Rules on this one occasion.

Almost as an afterthought, she opened the safe and withdrew the only existing PLACE documentation.

Both directly and indirectly, therefore, the employments that withdraw women from domestic pursuits are likely to increase alcoholism, and, it may be added, to increase its greatest potency for evil, namely its influence on the health of the stock.

There was an intimacy to the scene that made Alec halt, but before he could withdraw Feeya caught sight of him and broke into a broad, welcoming smile.

The birds withdrew in frenzied flight, probably alighting somewhere beyond, since they were no longer on the wing.

He withdrew a small aliquot of the liquid and began setting up his test apparatus.

Gillen had been the main prosecutor in the Weinberger case, but he had to withdraw because years before he had attended one of the meetings at which the defense secretary allegedly made false statements.

Anticipating trouble on the third army front he had withdrawn his outposts to a safer line all along the Ancre and up to Puisieux, and our men had been able to walk cautiously forward several hundred yards.

She became very depressed and withdrawn in prison and one day she took aplastic knife from the canteen.

Czechoslovakia, Rumania, and Yugoslavia, withdrawing within her boundaries prior to the two Viennese Arbitrage decisions.