Usually means: Pulled out from a situation.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. withdrew: Merriam-Webster
  2. withdrew: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. withdrew: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. withdrew: Collins English Dictionary
  5. withdrew: Vocabulary.com
  6. Withdrew, withdrew: Wordnik
  7. withdrew: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. withdrew: Wiktionary
  9. withdrew: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. withdrew: Dictionary.com
  11. withdrew: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Withdrew: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. Withdrew: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. withdrew: FreeDictionary.org
  15. withdrew: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. withdrew: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. withdrew: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. withdrew: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. withdrew: Idioms

(Note: See withdraw as well.)

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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive)
verb:  To draw or pull (something) away or back from its original position or situation.
verb:  To remove (someone or (reflexive, archaic) oneself) from a position or situation; specifically (military), to remove (soldiers) from a battle or position where they are stationed.
verb:  (archaic) To draw or pull (a bolt, curtain, veil, or other object) aside.
verb:  To take away or take back (something previously given or permitted); to remove, to retract.
verb:  To cause or help (someone) to stop taking an addictive drug or substance; to dry out.
verb:  To take (one's eyes) off something; to look away.
verb:  (figuratively)
verb:  To disregard (something) as belonging to a certain group.
verb:  To remove (a topic) from discussion or inquiry.
verb:  To stop (a course of action, proceedings, etc.)
verb:  To take back (a comment, something written, etc.); to recant, to retract.
verb:  (archaic or obsolete) To distract or divert (someone) from a course of action, a goal, etc.
verb:  (banking, finance) To extract (money) from a bank account or other financial deposit.
verb:  (intransitive)
verb:  Chiefly followed by from: to leave a place, someone's presence, etc., to go to another room or place.
verb:  (specifically, military) Of soldiers: to leave a battle or position where they are stationed; to retreat.
verb:  Chiefly followed by from: to stop taking part in some activity; also, to remove oneself from the company of others, from publicity, etc.
verb:  To stop talking to or interacting with other people and start thinking thoughts not related to what is happening.
verb:  To stop taking an addictive drug or substance; to undergo withdrawal.
verb:  Of a man: to remove the penis from a partner's body orifice before ejaculation; to engage in coitus interruptus.
noun:  An act of drawing back or removing; a removal, a withdrawal or withdrawing.
noun:  (law) Synonym of withdraught (“a dismissal of a lawsuit with prejudice based on a plaintiff's withdrawal of the suit; a retraxit; also, a fine imposed on a plaintiff for such a dismissal”)
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