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“withdraw” in Latin
abdūcōto lead away or aside, take away, bring away, carry off; detach, remove; to take (with one) to dine; to take asidedēdūcōto lead or bring out or away, divert; escort, accompany, conduct (out of one's house as a mark of respect or for protectāvertōto turn away, turn off, avert; to avoid, divert, deviate; to remove; to steal, embezzle, appropriate to oneselfāvocōto call off or away, withdraw, divert, remove, separate, turn; to distract or divert someone's attention; to dissuade, dvītōto avoid, evade; to shunēvītōto shun, avoidabeōto depart, go away, go off, exit; to change one's nature; synonym of eōdiscēdōto leave, depart, abandon, retire (with ablative); to not fulfill, fail to fulfill one's target; to deviate from a targe
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
withdraw
Transitively, abducere: deducere: avertere: avocare. To withdraw one’s self from anybody, defugere aliquem: defugere alicujus aditum sermonemque detrahere: subtrahere (to take away secretly, including the idea of force): subducere (to take away secretly, without force): adimere (to take away from, without force): abstrahere a, etc. (to draw or remove from anything, with force): eripere (to snatch away forcibly): surripere aliquid ab aliquo or aliquem alicui rei (to snatch away secretly, by stealth): fraudare aliquem (aliquid) aliqua re (to withdraw unjustly, to cheat, defraud): to withdraw one’s service from the state, reipublicae deesse: to be withdrawn from the sight, ex oculis auferri, eripi; e conspectu tolli.
Intransitively. To retire, se removere: se abducere: recedere a re (to retire): vitare, evitare, devitare aliquid (to shun, avoid): deesse alicui rei (to be wanting, as to help or service): aliquid deprecari (to decline; e.g., an office): aliquid detrectare (to refuse; e.g., militiam): aliquid subterfugere (secretly to endeavor to escape; e.g., militiam). To withdraw from a party or company, se subducere de circulo: to withdraw from public business, deesse reipublicae; a republica recedere; a negotiis publicis se removere; de foro recedere; entirely, se subtrahere ab omni parte reipublicae: to withdraw from anybody’s sight, se removere ab alicujus conspectu; recedere ab alicujus conspectu; fugere alicujus con spectum; vitare alicujus conspectum.
To depart, abire; discedere; proficisci (general term, to remove from a place): se recipere, redire (to retreat; e.g., from a battle): to withdraw with the garrison, praesidium educere and deducere (to lead out, to lead away): to withdraw without accomplishing an object, infecta re redire: to withdraw from a siege, obsidionem omittere.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for withdraw?
- The usual Latin words for “withdraw” are abdūcō, dēdūcō, āvertō; also āvocō, vītō, ēvītō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.