withdraw

withdraw
verb
ADVERB
▪ altogether, completely
▪ immediately, instantly
▪ abruptly, hastily, promptly, quickly, soon
▪

She hastily withdrew her hand from his.

▪ gradually, progressively (esp. BrE)
▪

Forces will be progressively withdrawn.

▪ temporarily
▪ immediately
▪ subsequently
▪ eventually
▪ formally
▪

The US formally withdrew from the anti-ballistic missile treaty.

▪

She formally withdrew her resignation.

▪ unilaterally
▪

the decision to unilaterally withdraw from the occupied territories

▪ voluntarily
VERB + WITHDRAW
▪ be forced to, be ordered to
▪

The troops were forced to withdraw to their own borders.

▪

He was forced to withdraw from the competition due to injury.

▪ threaten to, wish to
▪ choose to, decide to
▪ persuade sb to
▪ agree to
▪

The government has agreed to withdraw its troops.

▪ refuse to
PREPOSITION
▪ from
▪

Two thousand troops were withdrawn from the battle zone.

▪

They threatened to withdraw their support from the government.

▪ in favour/favor of
▪

He eventually withdrew in favour of Blair, thought to be the more popular candidate.

▪ into
▪

She withdrew into her own world.

Withdraw is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑army, ↑hand, ↑troops
Withdraw is used with these nouns as the object: ↑account, ↑aid, ↑allegation, ↑ambassador, ↑amendment, ↑application, ↑bid, ↑bill, ↑cash, ↑charge, ↑claim, ↑consent, ↑endorsement, ↑force, ↑fund, ↑funding, ↑hand, ↑labour, ↑money, ↑needle, ↑nomination, ↑objection, ↑offer, ↑permission, ↑privilege, ↑proposal, ↑remark, ↑resignation, ↑saving, ↑sponsorship, ↑statement, ↑support, ↑threat, ↑troops

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  • withdraw — early 13c., to take back, from with away + drawen to draw, possibly a loan translation of L. retrahere to retract. Sense of to remove oneself is recorded from c.1300 …   Etymology dictionary

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