Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Emotionally unresponsive or socially detached; introverted or aloof.
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- adjective
introvert . - verb Past participle of
withdraw
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- adjective tending to reserve or introspection
- adjective withdrawn from society; seeking solitude
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Examples
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Silver still has heavy investment demand, silver is still being destroyed, and silver is still being heavily withdrawn from the Comex depositories closing the year down to about 112 million ounces.
Archive 2009-12-27 Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigade 2009
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Two Rutgers University freshmen, accused of secretly broadcasting a classmate's sexual encounter online, have withdrawn from the school.
Dharun Ravi And Molly Wei Withdraw After Rutgers Suicide The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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We were withdrawn from the Western Desert in February 1941 and shipped on the HMS Bonaventure to Piraeus in Greece.
The Greek Campaign 2010
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American minister was withdrawn from the German capital.
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There are tax penalties and other fees if money is withdrawn from the accounts early, and loans against a retirement plan come with restrictions on how quickly they must be paid off and the amount that can be borrowed.
Families are trimming plans to pay for college, survey finds Ylan Q. Mui 2010
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(Many LLCs develop elaborate mechanisms to ensure that partners get reimbursed for the extra taxes they pay on money/not/withdrawn from the company.)
Matthew Yglesias » DeMint: The Richest 0.7 Percent of the Population is “Lots of People” 2009
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Tiger Woods has withdrawn from the Players Championship with an apparent injury on the seventh hole of the final round.
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For 401K's, only the final income withdrawn from the account in retirement is subject to taxation.
Economists' Voice on Fiscal Policy, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Tiger Woods has withdrawn from the Players Championship with an apparent injury on the seventh hole of the final round.
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Several Swiss private banks have withdrawn from the U.S. market altogether following the UBS case.
Swiss Warn Banks Over Offshore Accounts Katharina Bart 2010
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