withdraw

Meaning

Verb

• To pull (something) back, aside, or away.
• To stop talking to, or interacting with, other people and start thinking thoughts that are not related to what is happening around.
• To take back (a comment, etc); retract.
• To remove, to stop providing (one's support, etc); to take out of service.
• To extract (money from an account).
• To retreat.
• To be in withdrawal from an addictive drug etc.

Origin

• From Middle English withdrawen, from with- + drawen. More at with-, draw.