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Hello again, It seems I have another interesting question today. This time it is connected with the following sentences: "This approach leads to some thorny and predictable emotional patterns. These result from the fact that this approach requires a decision to withdraw life-sustaining...
"Drop" and "withdraw from" fit in American English (see my #15) if the course referred to is a single course (lecture seminar, lab, etc.) that meets at a specific time on a specific day or days over a set period of time, usually a semester.
The other system: If a student withdraws after the last date to withdraw without academic penalty, the student will receive a grade of Withdrawn Fail (WF). Withdrawing before that date receives a grade of Withdrawn Pass (WP).
This is an article I just read. "Prosecutor-general nominee Chun expressed his intention to resign from the post last night after the National Assembly failed to endorse his appointment." Is it okay to say "resign" when the person is just nominee? I thought "withdraw" is more proper word.
If you are about to withdraw your child from school, you need to write a letter of withdrawal. From this example it seems that withdraw is the verb and withdrawal the noun.
If you restrict the range of meaning of withdraw to mean retreat in battle then there is little difference, although retreat tends to be forced, and withdrawl tends to not forced. But in the heat of a battle they are not far appart. A withdrawl is possibly better organised than a retreat. GF.. Any colonels out there who can explain if the army thinks this way.