The building blocks of English

Affixes

with-

Away, back, against, in opposition to.

Old English wiþ‑, against or away, also the source of the preposition with.

There were once many words that contained this prefix, but only a few now survive in the language—withdraw, withstand, withhold—and no new ones are being created.

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