Cancel vs. Withdraw — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Cancel and Withdraw
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Cancel
To annul or invalidate
Cancel a credit card.
Withdraw
Remove or take away (something) from a particular place or position
She prised open the lid and withdrew a slim diamond ring
Ruth withdrew her hand from his
Cancel
To decide or announce that (a planned or scheduled event) will not take place, especially with no intention of holding it at a later time
Cancel a picnic.
Cancel a soccer game.
Withdraw
Leave or cause to leave a place or situation
UN forces withdrew from the province
Both countries agreed to withdraw their troops
Cancel
To cross out with lines or other markings.
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Withdraw
Cease to take an addictive drug
For the cocaine user, it is possible to withdraw without medication
Cancel
To mark or perforate (a postage stamp or check, for example) to indicate that it may not be used again.
Withdraw
To take back or away; remove
Withdrew his hand from the cookie jar.
Cancel
To neutralize or equalize; offset
Today's decline in stock price canceled out yesterday's gain.
Withdraw
To cause to leave or return
The government withdrew its diplomats from the capital.
Cancel
To remove (a common factor) from the numerator and denominator of a fractional expression.
Withdraw
To remove (money) from an account.
Cancel
To remove (a common factor or term) from both sides of an equation or inequality.
Withdraw
To turn away (one's gaze, for example).
Cancel
To neutralize one another; counterbalance
Two opposing forces that canceled out.
Withdraw
To draw aside
Withdrew the curtain.
Cancel
The act or an instance of canceling; a cancellation.
Withdraw
To remove from consideration or participation
Withdrew her application.
Withdrew his son from the race.
Cancel
(transitive) To cross out something with lines etc.
Withdraw
To recall or retract
Withdrew the accusation.
Cancel
(transitive) To invalidate or annul something.
He cancelled his order on their website.
Withdraw
To move or draw back; retire
The lawyers withdrew to the judge's chambers.
Cancel
(transitive) To mark something (such as a used postage stamp) so that it can't be reused.
This machine cancels the letters that have a valid zip code.
Withdraw
To leave or return, as from a military position.
Cancel
(transitive) To offset or equalize something.
The corrective feedback mechanism cancels out the noise.
Withdraw
To remove oneself from active participation
Withdrew from the competition.
Cancel
To remove a common factor from both the numerator and denominator of a fraction, or from both sides of an equation.
Withdraw
To become detached from social or emotional involvement
After the snubbing, he withdrew into a shell.
Cancel
To stop production of a programme.
Withdraw
To recall or remove a motion from consideration in parliamentary procedure.
Cancel
To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type.
Withdraw
To discontinue the use of a drug or other substance, especially one that is addictive.
Cancel
(obsolete) To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude.
Withdraw
To react physiologically and mentally to this discontinuance, often while experiencing distressing symptoms.
Cancel
(slang) To kill.
Withdraw
(transitive)
Cancel
To cease to provide financial or moral support to (someone deemed unacceptable). Compare cancel culture.
Withdraw
To draw or pull (something) away or back from its original position or situation.
Cancel
A cancellation (US); (nonstandard in some kinds of English).
Withdraw
To take away or take back (something previously given or permitted); to remove, to retract.
Cancel
A control message posted to Usenet that serves to cancel a previously posted message.
Withdraw
To cause or help (someone) to stop taking an addictive drug or substance; to dry out.
Cancel
(obsolete) An enclosure; a boundary; a limit.
Withdraw
To take (one's eyes) off something; to look away.
Cancel
(printing) The suppression on striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.
Withdraw
(figuratively)
Cancel
(printing) The page thus suppressed.
Withdraw
To distract or divert (someone) from a course of action, a goal, etc.
Cancel
(printing) The page that replaces it.
Withdraw
To extract (money) from a bank account or other financial deposit.
Cancel
To inclose or surround, as with a railing, or with latticework.
A little obscure place canceled in with iron work is the pillar or stump at which . . . our Savior was scourged.
Withdraw
(intransitive)
Cancel
To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude.
Withdraw
Chiefly followed by from: to leave a place, someone's presence, etc., to go to another room or place.
Cancel
To cross and deface, as the lines of a writing, or as a word or figure; to mark out by a cross line; to blot out or obliterate.
A deed may be avoided by delivering it up to be cancelled; that is, to have lines drawn over it in the form of latticework or cancelli; though the phrase is now used figuratively for any manner of obliterating or defacing it.
Withdraw
Chiefly followed by from: to stop taking part in some activity; also, to remove oneself from the company of others, from publicity, etc.
Cancel
To annul or destroy; to revoke or recall.
The indentures were canceled.
He was unwilling to cancel the interest created through former secret services, by being refractory on this occasion.
Withdraw
To stop talking to or interacting with other people and start thinking thoughts not related to what is happening.
Cancel
To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type.
Withdraw
To stop taking an addictive drug or substance; to undergo withdrawal.
Cancel
An inclosure; a boundary; a limit.
A prison is but a retirement, and opportunity of serious thoughts, to a person whose spirit . . . desires no enlargement beyond the cancels of the body.
Withdraw
Of a man: to remove the penis from a partner's body orifice before ejaculation; to engage in coitus interruptus.
Cancel
The suppression or striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.
Withdraw
An act of drawing back or removing; a removal, a withdrawal or withdrawing.
Cancel
A notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat
Withdraw
(law) withdraught
Cancel
Postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled;
Call off the engagement
Cancel the dinner party
Withdraw
To take back or away, as what has been bestowed or enjoyed; to draw back; to cause to move away or retire; as, to withdraw aid, favor, capital, or the like.
Impossible it is that God should withdraw his presence from anything.
Cancel
Make up for;
His skills offset his opponent's superior strength
Withdraw
To take back; to recall or retract; as, to withdraw false charges.
Cancel
Declare null and void; make ineffective;
Cancel the election results
Strike down a law
Withdraw
To retire; to retreat; to quit a company or place; to go away; as, he withdrew from the company.
Cancel
Remove or make invisible;
Please delete my name from your list
Withdraw
Pull back or move away or backward;
The enemy withdrew
The limo pulled away from the curb
Cancel
Of cheques or tickets
Withdraw
Withdraw from active participation;
He retired from chess
Withdraw
Release from something that holds fast, connects, or entangles;
I want to disengage myself from his influence
Disengage the gears
Withdraw
Cause to be returned;
Recall the defective auto tires
The manufacturer tried to call back the spoilt yoghurt
Withdraw
Take back what one has said;
He swallowed his words
Withdraw
Keep away from others;
He sequestered himself in his study to write a book
Withdraw
Remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, taking off, etc. or remove something abstract;
Remove a threat
Remove a wrapper
Remove the dirty dishes from the table
Take the gun from your pocket
This machine withdraws heat from the environment
Withdraw
Break from a meeting or gathering;
We adjourned for lunch
The men retired to the library
Withdraw
Retire gracefully;
He bowed out when he realized he could no longer handle the demands of the chairmanship
Withdraw
Remove (a commodity) from (a supply source);
She drew $2,000 from the account
The doctors drew medical supplies from the hospital's emergency bank
Withdraw
Lose interest;
He retired from life when his wife died
Withdraw
Make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity;
We'll have to crawfish out from meeting with him
He backed out of his earlier promise
The aggressive investment company pulled in its horns
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