撤回された
解説 Definition
withdrawn は withdraw（撤回する、引き下げる）の過去分詞で、「撤回された」という意味です。提案、申請、発言などが正式に取り下げられた状態を表すときに使います。
Withdrawn describes an offer, application, statement, or similar item that has been formally taken back or removed, so that it is no longer available, valid, or under consideration.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
原形 withdraw「撤回する・引き下げる」の不規則な過去分詞で、withdraw–withdrew–withdrawn と変化します。語尾は drawn と同じ発音です。a withdrawn offer/application/statement の形で、「いったん出されたものが正式に引っ込められた」と覚えましょう。人についての「内向的な」とは文脈で区別します。
Connect withdrawn with the irregular pattern withdraw–withdrew–withdrawn. Its final part sounds like drawn, not like a regular -ed ending. Picture an offer, application, or statement being pulled back after it was presented: a withdrawn offer is no longer available, and a withdrawn application is no longer being considered. This concrete “pulling back” image reflects the parts with, historically meaning “away,” and draw. In other contexts, withdrawn can describe a quiet, socially uncommunicative person, but the target sense here is “formally taken back.”
例文
The offer was withdrawn yesterday.
その申し出は昨日撤回されました。
Her application was withdrawn before the meeting.
彼女の申請は会議の前に取り下げられました。
The withdrawn statement is no longer on the website.
撤回された声明は、もうウェブサイトに載っていません。
withdrawn の類義語・関連語
withdrawn の語源・成り立ち Etymology
withdrawn は with「離れて」+ draw「引く」から成る withdraw の過去分詞形で、中英語に定着した語です。draw は古英語 dragan にさかのぼり、「引いて遠ざける」感覚から「撤回された・引っ込んだ」となります。関連語は withdrawal, redraw。
Withdrawn is the past participle of withdraw, a Middle English compound of with, formerly carrying the sense “away” or “back,” and draw, “pull.” Draw ultimately comes from Old English dragan. The physical idea of pulling something away developed into the administrative sense of taking back an offer, application, statement, or proposal. The irregular participle follows draw–drew–drawn, producing withdraw–withdrew–withdrawn.
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