What's the difference between retread and withdraw?

Retread


Definition:

  • (v. t. & i.) To tread again.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Each of them is an apocalyptic retread of Lord Of The Flies, but with all hot GQ-model Ralphs and no myopic Piggys.
  • (2) Good day: retread minister David Laws fondly recalled his first Lib Dem conference in 1994 when rampaging delegates called for legalised pot and an end to the monarchy.
  • (3) After 20 minutes of this well-designed and passably kinetic, albeit utterly humourless and derivative retread, I began to feel those two words like some kind of goading, pulsing taunt, as if they'd been implanted in my brain like the bespoke memories you can buy in the movie.
  • (4) "It was just a retread of the same old policies that have been sticking it to the middle-class for years," Obama said.
  • (5) The bulk were retreaded Old Labourites who, together with people who voted Green at the election, gave Corbyn his victory.
  • (6) Critics complain that the ranks of ex-Westminster retreads and former police authority chairmen that dominate the lists so far, despite the best efforts of Lord Prescott, are hardly sprinkled with stardust.
  • (7) Some are decent films, but are simply retreading narratives that we are fed again and again: our particular favourites are when White-People-Solve-Racism (The Help) or Arabs-Are-Up-To-No-Good (The Hurt Locker).
  • (8) He may even manage to hang on for a time by surrounding himself with a retinue of loyalists and retreads, among them the former Tory spin doctor turned Labour MP Shaun Woodward.
  • (9) Their relationship has played out in the press as a tinny, 21st-century retread of Liz Taylor and Richard Burton – the Hollywood insider and the Welsh upstart, with the gender roles reversed.
  • (10) The readability debate is in fact another retread of various arguments that beset what has become known as literary fiction – a woolly genre that encompasses books that don't sell very well, books that aren't "genre" fiction and anything with a taint of modernism or experiment.
  • (11) It is the Blairite retreads in his own party that censor his passion.
  • (12) Even the movie that was supposed to herald the return of the genre more than two decades ago, Clint Eastwood 's Oscar-winning Unforgiven , was a brilliant retread of familiar themes rather than a plunge into fresh waters.
  • (13) And younger MPs have indeed shown some interest in new ideas and imaginative policies that aren’t simply retreads of the previous government’s initiatives.
  • (14) albopictus, an investigation of tire retreading operations was initiated to determine the source and mode of introduction of Ae.
  • (15) However, it could not repeat the first film's positive critical reception, with reviewers complaining that the storyline amounted to little more than an unimaginative retread of part one.
  • (16) But he kept the boat afloat with a handful of retreads and wannabes, and most of all, well above average pitching .
  • (17) In an aircraft type retreading plant environmental samples taken at several departments showed mutagenic properties.
  • (18) Maybe this means a few more Christmas retreads, but who cares?

Withdraw


Definition:

  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t.) To take back; to recall or retract; as, to withdraw false charges.
  • (v. i.) To retire; to retreat; to quit a company or place; to go away; as, he withdrew from the company.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Mice also had a decreased ability to develop delayed-type hypersensitivity reactions while being given cadmium; this abnormality also returned toward normal after withdrawal of cadmium.
  • (2) They insist this is the best way of ensuring the country does not descend into chaos before the final withdrawal of combat troops.
  • (3) When AMT administration was discontinued 40 hrs before precipitation of withdrawal the withdrawal pattern occurred with unchanged intensity.
  • (4) The clinical course was observed in 50 patients while the remaining 10 were hospitalized and submitted to esophago-gastro-duodenoscopy and colonoscopy both before and after treatment for withdrawal of duodenal secretion and fragments of duodenojejunal and colonic mucosa biopsies.
  • (5) In the total sample, PEI factors and negative nominations were more stable than positive nominations, and PEI Aggression and Withdrawal scores were more stable than negative nominations.
  • (6) The model identified the following important variables: sex (relative risk (rr) = 2.4), beta-blocker withdrawal (rr = 2.1), performance on exercise test and digitalis treatment (rr = 2.3, P less than 0.05).
  • (7) Obvious restitution of the thymic medulla was evident about 14 days after withdrawal of FK506.
  • (8) Sleep alterations in addicted newborns could be related to central nervous system (CNS) distress caused by withdrawal.
  • (9) "I did so in protest at using unethical ways to make unjust allegations, therefore I hereby withdraw my complaint against this artist."
  • (10) However, there has been a need for a way to measure withdrawal behavior quantitatively over time.
  • (11) Twelve weeks after withdrawal heart rate and blood pressure responses to mental stress were normalized.
  • (12) Scores on the "dependent smoking" subscale of the smoking motivation questionnaire correlated significantly with overall withdrawal severity, craving, and increased irritability.
  • (13) Withdrawal of the drug and application of all-trans retinoic acid ointment resulted in resolving of the keratinisation.
  • (14) In 227 smokers' clinic clients who managed at least one week of abstinence, ratings of withdrawal symptoms were used to predict subsequent return to smoking.
  • (15) Side effects of carbenoxolone therapy were observed, but they did not necessitate withdrawal of the drug and were readily controlled in every instance.
  • (16) The maximal density of [3H] 8-hydroxy-2-(di-n- propylamino)tetralin [( 3H] 8-OH-DPAT) binding (Bmax) to 5-HT1a receptors was decreased by 25 and 17% in the hippocampus during chronic ethanol intoxication and withdrawal, respectively.
  • (17) The whole body withdrawal reaction of freshwater snail Planorbarius corneus consists of two phases.
  • (18) Furthermore, patients with alcohol-related atrial fibrillation were significantly more likely to manifest alcohol withdrawal syndrome than were other inpatients with heavy alcohol use.
  • (19) Withdrawal from long-term treatment with benzodiazepines was followed in three patients by a severe delusional depression.
  • (20) A similar increase in HDL-cholesterol was observed in the E2 + NETA group, following withdrawal.

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