Difference between Withdraw and Remove

What is the difference between Withdraw and Remove?

Withdraw as a verb is to pull (something) back. while Remove as a verb is to move something from one place to another, especially to take away.

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: I was forced away from the plantation because I wouldn't go back and withdraw, you know, my literacy test after I had tried to take it. I wouldn't go back.

Remove

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To move something from one place to another, especially to take away.To murder someone., To dismiss a batsman.To depart, leave.To change one's residence.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The act of removing something, especially removing a dish at a meal in order to replace it with the next courseA dish thus replaced, or the replacement(at some public schools) A division of the school, especially the form prior to lastA step or gradation (as in the phrase "at one remove")

Example sentence: My encouragement: delete the energy vampires from your life, clean out all complexity, build a team around you that frees you to fly, remove anything toxic, and cherish simplicity. Because that's where genius lives.

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

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