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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Withdraw \With*draw"\ (w[i^][th]*dr[add]"), verb (used with an object) [imp. {Withdrew} (-dr[udd]"); p. p. {Withdrawn} (-dr[add]n"); p. pr. & vb. n. {Withdrawing}.] [With against + draw.]
1. 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.
2. To take back; to recall or retract; as, to withdraw false charges.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
withdrawn See {withdraw}
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
withdraw
verb
1: 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}]
2: withdraw from active participation; "He retired from chess" [syn: {retire}]
3: release from something that holds fast, connects, or entangles; "I want to disengage myself from his influence"; "disengage the gears" [syn: {disengage}] [ant: {engage}]
4: cause to be returned; "recall the defective auto tires"; "The manufacturer tried to call back the spoilt yoghurt" [syn: {recall}, {call in}, {call back}]
5: take back what one has said; "He swallowed his words" [syn: {swallow}, {take back}, {unsay}]
6: keep away from others; "He sequestered himself in his study to write a book" [syn: {seclude}, {sequester}, {sequestrate}]
7: 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}]
8: break from a meeting or gathering; "We adjourned for lunch"; "The men retired to the library" [syn: {adjourn}, {retire}]
9: retire gracefully; "He bowed out when he realized he could no longer handle the demands of the chairmanship" [syn: {bow out}]
10: 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}]
11: lose interest; "he retired from life when his wife died" [syn: {retire}]
12: 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}] [also: {withdrew}, {withdrawn}]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
withdrawn
adjective
1: withdrawn from society; seeking solitude; "lived an unsocial reclusive life" [syn: {recluse}, {reclusive}]
2: tending to reserve or introspection; "a quiet indrawn man" [syn: {indrawn}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
144 Moby Thesaurus words for "withdrawn": Laodicean, Olympian, alienated, alone, aloof, anonymous, apart, apathetic, aseptic, backward, bashful, benumbed, blah, blank, blase, bored, careless, casual, chilled, chilly, closet, cold, comatose, companionless, constrained, cool, desensitized, detached, discreet, disinterested, distant, dull, exclusive, expressionless, forbidding, friendless, frigid, frosty, guarded, heartless, hebetudinous, heedless, homeless, hopeless, icy, impassive, impersonal, in a backwater, in a stupor, inaccessible, incognito, incurious, indifferent, inmost, innermost, insociable, insouciant, insular, interior, intimate, introverted, inward, isolated, kithless, languid, lethargic, listless, lone, lonely, lonesome, mindless, modest, nonchalant, numb, numbed, offish, out-of-the-way, out-of-the-world, passive, personal, phlegmatic, pluckless, private, privy, quarantined, regardless, remote, removed, repressed, reserved, resigned, restrained, reticent, retired, retiring, rootless, secluded, seclusive, segregated, separate, separated, sequestered, shrinking, shut off, single-handed, slack, sluggish, solitary, solo, soporific, spiritless, spunkless, standoff, standoffish, stoic, stolid, stupefied, subdued, supine, suppressed, torpid, unabetted, unaccompanied, unaffable, unaided, unapproachable, unassisted, unattended, uncaring, uncompanionable, unconcerned, uncongenial, undemonstrative, unescorted, unexpansive, unfrequented, ungenial, uninquiring, uninterested, uninvolved, unmindful, unseconded, unsupported, unvisited
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