Home › Words › D › disadvancedisadvancedisadvance · verb — to draw back, pull back.Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).EtymologyFrom Middle English disavauncen, from Old French desavancer.verbTo draw back, pull back.e.g.“Through Cambels shoulder it unwarely went, / That forced him his shield to disadvaunce.” — 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.detrectation 65% match — Drawing back; refusal; withdrawal. vs disadvance →foredraw 63% match — To draw beforehand or in advance; draw forward. vs disadvance →forthdraw 63% match — To draw or bring forth. vs disadvance →disadvise 63% match — To advise against. vs disadvance →bedraw 62% match — To draw aside or away. vs disadvance →retrocess 60% match — To retrocede or grant back. vs disadvance →counteradvance 60% match — An advance that counters or goes against another advance. vs disadvance →retrude 60% match — To thrust back. vs disadvance →