withdraw

To draw or pull (something) away or back from its original position or situation.transitive

• VVhy vvithdravveſt thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy boſome.
• Hovv counterfeit a coin they are vvho friends / Bear in their Superſcription (of the moſt / I vvould be underſtood) in proſperous days / They ſvvarm, but in adverſe vvithdravv their head / Not to be found, though ſought.

To draw or pull (something) away or back from its original position or situation.; 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.transitive

• Thou neuer vvithdrevvſt thy ſelfe and vvert ſolitarie, but my Spyrite vvas reproouing and diſputing vvith thee.
• VVithdravve your ſelues, and leaue vs here alone.

To draw or pull (something) away or back from its original position or situation.; To draw or pull (a bolt, curtain, veil, or other object) aside.archaictransitive

• [S]he was in no mood for sleep; so, putting her light upon the table and withdrawing the little window curtain, she gazed out pensively at the wild night sky.
• Here's the veil withdrawn from landscape: up to Jura and beyond, / All awaits us ranged and ready; yet she violates the bond, / Neither leans nor looks nor listens: why is this?

To take away or take back (something previously given or permitted); to remove, to retract.transitive

• I wyl be his father, and he ſhal be my ſonne. And I wyl not withdrawe my mercy from him, as I haue withdrawen it frõ him that was before the[e]: […]
• Hee that vvithdravveth the corne, the people vvill curſe him: but bleſſing ſhall bee on the head of him that ſelleth corne.

To cause or help (someone) to stop taking an addictive drug or substance; to dry out.transitive

To take (one's eyes) off something; to look away.transitive

• The lady looked up; her eyes met those of Mr. Watkins Tottle. She withdrew them in a sweet confusion, and Watkins Tottle did the same—the confusion was mutual.
• With this agreeable speech Monks turned short upon the matron, and bent his fierce gaze upon her, till even she, who was not easily cowed, was fain to withdraw her eyes, and turn them towards the ground.

To disregard (something) as belonging to a certain group.figurativelytransitive

• One [poem] by Hercules Rollock on the marriage of Anne of Denmark is better, and equal, a few names withdrawn, to any of the contemporaneous poetry of France.

To remove (a topic) from discussion or inquiry.figurativelytransitive

To stop (a course of action, proceedings, etc.)figurativelytransitive

• The question was put that "The Endeavour" be hired for the occasion; Mr. Alexander Briggs moved as an amendment, that the word "Fly" be substituted for the word "Endeavour;" but after some debate consented to withdraw his opposition.

To take back (a comment, something written, etc.); to recant, to retract.figurativelytransitive

• to withdraw false charges

An act of drawing back or removing; a removal, a withdrawal or withdrawing.obsolete

• Indeed one of theſe VVitneſſes vvas over perſvvaded by ſome Perſons, to be out of the vvay, upon G. B.’s Trial; but he came aftervvards, vvith ſorrovv for his vvithdravv, and gave in his Teſtimony: […]

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”).obsolete