withdraw
v.v. to take something back or move away from a place. You use this when you take money out of a bank or when soldiers leave a battle.
v. to remove or take back something that was previously provided or deposited; to retreat from a position or situation. Transitive when referring to objects or funds, and intransitive when referring to physical movement or social isolation.
I need to withdraw some cash from the ATM.
The company decided to withdraw its latest product from the market after discovering a minor safety defect.
Following the collapse of diplomatic negotiations, the general ordered the infantry to withdraw to the secondary defensive line to avoid being surrounded by the advancing enemy forces.
PIE word *wí From Middle English withdrawen, withdrauen (“to depart, leave, move away; (reflexive) to go away; (reflexive) to leave someone’s service; (often reflexive) to draw back or retreat (from a battlefield or dangerous place), withdraw; to abandon, desert; to go, go forth; to move; of the sea, water, etc.: to (cause to) ebb, recede, subside; to disappear; to slacken, wane; (often reflexive) to cease, stop; to desist, refrain; (reflexive) to go back on, recant; to avoid, eschew; to bring under control, contain, suppress; to curb, curtail; to delay, put off; to demur, refuse; to carry or take away, deprive of, remove; to contract, draw away or in, retract; to deny, refuse; to revoke; to withhold; to divert; to separate; to adopt, borrow, imitate”) [and other forms], from with- (prefix meaning ‘away; back’) + drawen, drauen (“to drag, pull, tow, tug, draw [and other senses]”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ- (“to drag, pull; to run”)); see further at with- and draw. The English word is analysable as with- + draw.
From Middle English withdrawe (“act of stopping a judicial proceeding”), from withdrawen, withdrauen (verb): see etymology 1.
The verb is transitive when taking an object like 'money' or 'support', but intransitive when meaning 'to retreat' or 'to become socially detached'.
I withdrawed the moneyI withdrew the moneyWithdraw is an irregular verb; the past simple form is 'withdrew' and the past participle is 'withdrawn'.