Origin and history of withdrawn

early 13c., withdrauen, "take back, draw away or aside" (transitive), from with in a archaic sense of "away" + draw (v.).

Possibly a loan-translation of Latin retrahere "to retract." The intransitive sense of "retire, go away" is attested from mid-13c. The sense of "remove oneself" is recorded from c. 1300. As "move money from" a bank or other place of deposit, by 1776. Related: Withdrawn; withdrawing.