Crossword clues for withdrawn
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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 Withdrew (-dr[udd]"); p. p. Withdrawn (-dr[add]n"); p. pr.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.]
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To take back or away, as what has been bestowed or enjoyed; to draw back; to cause to move away or retire; as, to withdraw aid, favor, capital, or the like.
Impossible it is that God should withdraw his presence from anything.
--Hooker. To take back; to recall or retract; as, to withdraw false charges.
Wiktionary
introvert. v
(past participle of withdraw English)
WordNet
See withdraw
v. pull back or move away or backward; "The enemy withdrew"; "The limo pulled away from the curb" [syn: retreat, pull away, draw back, recede, pull back, retire, move back]
withdraw from active participation; "He retired from chess" [syn: retire]
release from something that holds fast, connects, or entangles; "I want to disengage myself from his influence"; "disengage the gears" [syn: disengage] [ant: engage]
cause to be returned; "recall the defective auto tires"; "The manufacturer tried to call back the spoilt yoghurt" [syn: recall, call in, call back]
take back what one has said; "He swallowed his words" [syn: swallow, take back, unsay]
keep away from others; "He sequestered himself in his study to write a book" [syn: seclude, sequester, sequestrate]
remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, taking off, etc. or remove something abstract; "remove a threat"; "remove a wrapper"; "Remove the dirty dishes from the table"; "take the gun from your pocket"; "This machine withdraws heat from the environment" [syn: remove, take, take away]
break from a meeting or gathering; "We adjourned for lunch"; "The men retired to the library" [syn: adjourn, retire]
retire gracefully; "He bowed out when he realized he could no longer handle the demands of the chairmanship" [syn: bow out]
remove (a commodity) from (a supply source); "She drew $2,000 from the account"; "The doctors drew medical supplies from the hospital's emergency bank" [syn: draw, take out, draw off] [ant: deposit]
lose interest; "he retired from life when his wife died" [syn: retire]
make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity; "We'll have to crawfish out from meeting with him"; "He backed out of his earlier promise"; "The aggressive investment company pulled in its horns" [syn: retreat, pull back, back out, back away, crawfish, crawfish out, pull in one's horns]
Usage examples of "withdrawn".
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.
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.
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.
Mr Puffett, who all this time had remained discreetly withdrawn and was, at the moment, assisting Crutchley to sponge the aspidistra leaves, looked up, and joined in the melody with a powerful roar.
Of the male slaves who had been allowed the use of female slaves, all save one had withdrawn in fear, lest they be struck down by females with swords for attempting the use of females in chains.
Yes, said the manager in a concerned manner, Mrs Boulting had been in and had withdrawn everything from their current joint account.
Izable, Eliey, and Kaudine had fallen, and the forward artillery had been withdrawn, along with the survivors of the overrun outposts, to a line centered on Judlie, behind the main command post.
This deep cool room, with shadowed walls and ceiling, Tranquil and cloistral, fragrant of my mind, This cool room says,--just such a room have you, It waits you always at the tops of stairways, Withdrawn, remote, familiar to your uses, Where you may cease pretence and be yourself.
Majors, Comber and de Tournay, had withdrawn from the fray and settled themselves in a corner with the drinks cabinet.
With the plant critical, the rods only affected coolant temperature, but when the plant was shut down the rods were withdrawn to start the nuclear fission reactions that heated the main coolant water, boiling the water in the steam generators and thereby providing steam to the turbines.
Ministry had refused to issue a permit there had been no further suggestion of maternity, and Rosalie had withdrawn from the public eye to her villa near Corbeil, whence she wrote and sent parcels to the prisoner at frequent intervals.
And this in spite of the fact that Archie, as early as the third morning of his stay, had gone to him and in the most frank and manly way had withdrawn his criticism of the Hotel Cosmopolis, giving it as his considered opinion that the Hotel Cosmopolis on closer inspection appeared to be a good egg, one of the best and brightest, and a bit of all right.
Inside the office with the door closed behind them, Laurie glanced anxiously towards Rian, thinking his features had grown more forbidding and cynically withdrawn.
Well, when the Diabolonian lords that were left perceived that Mansoul had, through sinning, offended Emmanuel their Prince, and that he had withdrawn himself and was gone, what do they but plot the ruin of the town of Mansoul.