Difference between Withdraw and Recall

What is the difference between Withdraw and Recall?

Withdraw as a verb is to pull (something) back. while Recall as a verb is to call back, bring back or summon to a specific place, station etc.

Withdraw

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To pull (something) back. To take back (a comment, etc). To remove, to stop providing (one's support, etc). To extract (money from an account). To retreat.

Example sentence: No one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi, wander off into the desert by yourself, but you are related. You cannot escape from that absolute fact. You cannot exist in isolation.

Recall

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To call back, bring back or summon to a specific place, station etc.To remember, recollect.To request or order someone or something to return, especially that a product or batch of products be returned to its manufacturer for repair or replacementTo cancel or annul, especially of a journey undertaken by an official.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The action or fact of calling someone or something back.Memory; the ability to remember.In Information retrieval, the fraction of (all) relevant material that is returned by a search

Example sentence: Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces and favors, and also the great love God showed in giving us in Christ a pledge of His love; for love calls for love in return. Let us strive to keep this always before our eyes and to rouse ourselves to love Him.

We hope you now know whether to use Withdraw or Recall in your sentence.

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