ontrokken

Ontrokken is a Dutch term formed as the past participle of onttrekken, with its origin in the prefix onto- meaning removal or extraction and the verb trekken, to pull or draw. The core sense is to take something away from a source, to deprive, or to withdraw. Because it is a participle, ontrokken is commonly used in passive constructions, such as middelen zijn ontrokken (funds have been withdrawn) or gegevens zijn ontrokken uit een databank (data have been extracted from a database).

In addition to its primary financial and data-oriented uses, onttrekken can appear in legal or administrative contexts to describe the act of depriving someone of rights, funds, or resources, or of drawing resources away from a program or budget. The term thus covers both physical removal and more abstract withdrawal of assets or information.

As an adjective, ontrokken can describe something that has been withdrawn or removed, and in some contexts it may describe a person or mood as withdrawn or reserved, though the adjectival use is less common than the verbal form in formal writing.

Related terms include onttrekken, which is a closely related verb form used in similar contexts, and ontrekking, the noun for withdrawal or extraction. The word is established in standard Dutch and appears across legal, financial, and administrative texts, as well as in academic or archival writing where data or funds are described as having been drawn away from a source.