Reject vs. Withdraw — What's the Difference?

To refuse to accept, submit to, believe, or make use of

Remove or take away (something) from a particular place or position

(transitive) To refuse to accept.

Leave or cause to leave a place or situation

(basketball) To block a shot, especially if it sends the ball off the court.

Cease to take an addictive drug

To refuse a romantic advance.

To take back or away; remove

Something that is rejected.

To cause to leave or return

An unpopular person.

To remove (money) from an account.

(colloquial) A rejected defective product in a production line.

To turn away (one's gaze, for example).

(aviation) A rejected takeoff.

To draw aside

To cast from one; to throw away; to discard.

To remove from consideration or participation

To refuse to receive or to acknowledge; to decline haughtily or harshly; to repudiate.

To recall or retract

To refuse to grant; as, to reject a prayer or request.

To move or draw back; retire

The person or thing rejected or set aside as inferior in quality

To leave or return, as from a military position.

Refuse to accept or acknowledge;

To remove oneself from active participation

Refuse to accept;

To become detached from social or emotional involvement

Deem wrong or inappropriate;

To recall or remove a motion from consideration in parliamentary procedure.

Reject with contempt;

To discontinue the use of a drug or other substance, especially one that is addictive.

Resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ;

To react physiologically and mentally to this discontinuance, often while experiencing distressing symptoms.

Refuse entrance or membership;

(transitive)

Dismiss from consideration;

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

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

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

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

(figuratively)

To distract or divert (someone) from a course of action, a goal, etc.

To extract (money) from a bank account or other financial deposit.

(intransitive)

Chiefly followed by from: to leave a place, someone's presence, etc., to go to another room or place.

Chiefly followed by from: to stop taking part in some activity; also, to remove oneself from the company of others, from publicity, etc.

To stop talking to or interacting with other people and start thinking thoughts not related to what is happening.

To stop taking an addictive drug or substance; to undergo withdrawal.

Of a man: to remove the penis from a partner's body orifice before ejaculation; to engage in coitus interruptus.

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

(law) withdraught

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.

To take back; to recall or retract; as, to withdraw false charges.

To retire; to retreat; to quit a company or place; to go away; as, he withdrew from the company.

Pull back or move away or backward;

Withdraw from active participation;

Release from something that holds fast, connects, or entangles;

Cause to be returned;

Take back what one has said;

Keep away from others;

Remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, taking off, etc. or remove something abstract;

Break from a meeting or gathering;

Retire gracefully;

Remove (a commodity) from (a supply source);

Lose interest;

Make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity;