n
A (short) cessation of combat; a cease-fire, a truce.
v
(transitive, rare) To avert; to ward off.
v
(transitive) To turn aside or away.
adv
So as shrink, recede or move aside, or cause to do so.
v
(intransitive) To move in a direction opposite to that which one is facing, keeping one's attention on the thing in front being avoided.
v
(idiomatic) To withdraw from a commitment or position.
v
(literally) To move backwards away from something.
v
(intransitive) To withdraw from something one has agreed to do.
n
(computing) The situation where an algorithm or process refrains from taking an action it would otherwise have taken.
v
(transitive) To recall; to cancel or call a halt to.
n
(obsolete) Cessation; extinction (see without cease).
v
(idiomatic, by extension) To withdraw from any confrontational or potentially confrontational situation; to avoid participating in a competition or contest.
v
Alternative form of mend one's ways [(idiomatic) To recognise one's failings and attempt to remedy them.]
v
(idiomatic) To convince someone to make a decision differing from what a previous one.
v
(intransitive) To become uninterested in an activity and cease to participate in more than a perfunctory manner; to become uncooperative.
n
A retreat or withdrawal from an earlier position or opinion; a backdown.
n
One who desists, who stops or has stopped doing something.
v
(intransitive) To make a detour.
v
(military) To force (an army) out of trenches, or to be so forced out.
v
(transitive) To interrupt the continuance of; to put an end to, especially as regards commercial productions; to stop producing, making, or supplying.
v
(intransitive, obsolete) To hurry.
v
(transitive) To lead away, or cause to move away, by luring.
v
(intransitive) To retire or retreat.
n
(especially India) The act of drawing upon; a withdrawal.
v
To move to a lower (or slower) position in a race or competition; to slow down so as to meet up with someone behind oneself
v
(reflexive, now rare) To remove (oneself); to retire, move away (from).
v
(military) To withdraw troops surreptitiously from a dangerous position
v
(intransitive) To come to an end; to conclude.
v
To fail to fulfill a promise or purpose.
v
(transitive) To fall back on.
v
(idiomatic) To cause oneself to remember (something); to avoid expressing a feeling, fact or idea until an appropriate time.
v
(transitive) To abort an unresponsive computer program, bypassing the usual closure process.
n
A going forth or forward
v
To retreat; to yield an advantage.
v
(transitive, idiomatic) To end relations with.
v
(transitive, computing) To assert to (a computer) that an exceptional condition must be handled.
v
(transitive, intransitive, art) In painting, to apply gentle strokes to smooth a wet coat of paint so as to remove visible roller- or brush-marks, commonly using a dry brush; a similar technique, but using a loaded laying-off brush, may produce a smooth coat of paint when using a roller or the usual brush techniques would leave marks.
n
Alternative spelling of layoff [(chiefly US) A dismissal of employees from their jobs because of tightened budgetary constraints or work shortage (not due to poor performance or misconduct).]
v
(transitive) To turn so as to show another side.
v
(transitive, rare) To offset.
n
The act of offloading something, or diverting it elsewhere.
n
To procedures and paperwork surrounding the termination of a military tour of duty
v
(transitive, Internet) To leave (an IRC channel).
v
(transitive) To keep at a distance
v
(transitive, sports) To pass (the ball) into a position further from the attacking goal line.
n
Alternative spelling of pullback [The act or result of pulling back; a withdrawal.]
n
A withdrawal, especially of armed forces.
v
(literally) To apply a force to (an entity) such that it moves to a more distant position.
v
To refute or argue against a position or an accusation; to express one's own view on a situation.
v
(transitive) To put (something) in its usual storage place; to place out of the way, clean up.
v
(transitive) To distract; to disturb the concentration of.
v
To prepare for the end of, or a radical change in, one's life.
v
(idiomatic, chiefly in the negative) To revert a situation.
v
(computing, transitive) To pause or reduce the activity of (a device or application), for example to prepare it for backups or other maintenance.
v
(transitive) To suspend (formal proceedings) temporarily.
v
(transitive) To stop or cancel.
v
(intransitive, now rare) To depart, leave.
v
(transitive) To delay or postpone (an event).
v
To force back against the current.
n
A bugle call or drumbeat signaling the lowering of the flag at sunset, as on a military base.
v
(transitive, specifically) To terminate the employment of a worker to reduce the size of a workforce; to make redundant.
v
To stop seeing or encountering a person or thing.
v
(transitive) To set aside; to quit or postpone.
v
(intransitive) To deviate briefly from the topic at hand.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To withdraw or retire from a position or from a team.
n
(military) A time when soldiers are not on alert
v
(idiomatic) To stop what one is doing and evaluate the current situation.
v
(idiomatic) To resign from office; to abdicate.
v
(intransitive, colloquial) To cease talking.
v
To discontinue or interrupt a function, task, position, or event.
v
(figuratively) To withdraw temporarily from a situation in order to evaluate it; to cease one's course of action and take a moment to reflect on it; to try and gain some perspective.
v
(intransitive) To change sides or affiliation; to apostatize.
n
The act of abandoning something or someone, of changing sides; desertion; betrayal.
v
(idiomatic, transitive, intransitive) (of an elected official, lease, etc) To finish the term.
v
(transitive, informal) To remove (someone) from an elected position by limiting the number of terms they can serve.
n
The process of firing an employee; ending one's employment at a business for any reason.
v
(sports) To exchange a higher selection in a player draft for a lower one.
v
To rebel; to go against something formerly tolerated.
v
(transitive, idiomatic) To rebel or oppose to something formerly supported.
v
(transitive) To avert or deflect something.
v
(idiomatic) To refuse, decline, or deny.
v
(transitive, idiomatic) To relinquish; give up; to tell on someone to the authorities (especially to turn someone in).
v
(intransitive) To turn away, as when fleeing or in contempt.
n
(chiefly US) Alternative spelling of withdraught [(law, obsolete) Retraxit: a dismissal with prejudice based on a plaintiff's withdrawal of the suit.]
n
(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”)
n
(computing) Transmit off.
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