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victorious(dictionary)
Withdraw(medicine)
Withdraw(finance)
withdraw(1)(dictionary)
withdraw(2)(dictionary)
withdraw(dictionary)

withdraw(2) (iou) and victorious (oh)


withdraw(2) (iou)



withdraw verb. . ME.
[from WITH- + DRAW verb.]
I. verb trans.
Draw back or remove (a thing) from its place or position; take (one's eyes etc.) off something. (Foll. by from.) ME.
W. Cather Alexandra tried to withdraw her hand, but Frank held on to it.
b. Draw (a veil, curtain, etc.) back or aside; draw back (a bolt). Now rare. L18.
Take back or away (something bestowed or enjoyed). ME.
D. Athill An Egyptian whose passport had been withdrawn because he was a Communist. E. Forsey The Quebec government, having given a tentative consent, withdrew it.
b. Cause to decrease or disappear. LME-M16.
c. Remove (money) from a place of deposit. L18.
Guardian Savers withdrew 206.9 million more than they invested.
fig.
a. Take back, retract, (one's words, a statement or expression). Formerly, rescind (a judgement). ME.
Guardian He challenged the Opposition to withdraw its allegation.
b. Remove from circulation, from the scope of an enquiry, etc. (Foll. by from.) E18.
H. R. Forster The next two lots were withdrawn. She Saab agreed to withdraw an advert..after a complaint from Friends of the Earth.
c. Refrain from proceeding with (a course of action, a proposal, etc.); cease to support (a candidate etc.). L18.
J. Purseglove In 1984 the Thames Water Authority withdrew its drainage proposals for Otmoor. Guardian She withdrew her claim for unfair dismissal.
a. Keep back, stay (one's hand). Also, withhold (a blow). Only in ME.
b. Keep back, withhold, (something due, customary, or necessary). ME-L16.
c. Keep back, restrain (a person, his or her desires, etc.). ME-M16.
Draw away, deflect, divert (a person, his or her mind, etc.) from an object, pursuit, line of conduct, etc. Usu. foll. by from. Now rare. ME.
J. Wain They've withdrawn their energy from everything else and put it into one thing.
refl. Remove oneself from a place or position; fig. remove oneself from a condition, sphere, society, etc. Now rare. ME.
Dickens I am withdrawing myself from engagements of all kinds.
b. Cease to do, refrain from doing. Only in ME.
c. Cause (a person) to undergo withdrawal from an addictive drug. M20.
Cause (a person) to retire from a position; spec. cause (troops) to retire from a position or engagement. (Foll. by from.) LME.
Thackeray Walter..was withdrawn from Eton, and put into a merchant's house. G. Greene The Americans had withdrawn their ambassador. D. Fraser The British Army had been withdrawn from the Aisne front..and moved northward.
b. Law. Remove (a juror) from the panel in order to put an end to the proceedings. L17.
II. verb intrans.
Depart or retire from a place or position, from a person's presence, to another room or a private place. (Foll. by from.) ME.
G. A. Birmingham The servant, after leaving coffee on the table, finally withdrew. E. Bowen They withdrew early to their own rooms. C. S. Forester Hunter and Wingatt heard what she said and withdrew out of earshot.
b. Of combatants: retire from a field of battle, a contest, an advanced position, etc. ME.
H. Macmillan As the Israeli troops withdrew those of the United Nations occupied the territory behind them.
c. Of water: subside, ebb. ME-E17.
d. Of an immaterial thing, a condition, etc.: depart, disappear. Only in ME.
Remove oneself or retire from a society or community, from public life, etc.; abandon participation (in an enterprise etc.). ME.
withdraw into oneself become reserved or uncommunicative. withdraw into one's shell: see SHELL noun.
G. Steiner The holy man..withdraws..from the temptations of worldly action. A. Gray I want you to withdraw from this case and start on someone more important. A. F. Loewenstein When..told..she wanted to go to the party alone, he'd withdrawn into wounded silence.
Foll. by of, to do: cease or refrain from doing something. Only in ME.
In parliamentary procedure: retract an unparliamentary remark etc. at the insistence of Other MPs. Usu. in imper. L18.
Practise coitus interruptus. M20.
Cease to use an addictive drug, undergo withdrawal from an Addiction. L20.
withdrawable adjective M19.

victorious (oh)



having won a victory, or ending in a victory
::the victorious team
::We were confident that the Allies would emerge victorious (=finally win) .
-- victoriously adv