Withdrawal
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English
Noun
Withdrawal (plural Withdrawals)- Receiving from someone's care what one has earlier entrusted to them. Usually refers to money.
- A method of birth control which consists of removing the penis from the vagina before ejaculation.
- A type of metabolic shock the body undergoes when a substance, usually a toxin such as heroin, to which a patient is addicted is withheld. Sometimes used with the substance as modifier
- heroin withdrawal
- nicotine withdrawal
- An act of withdrawing.
Antonyms
- (receiving from someone's care): deposit
Adjectives for Withdrawal
timely; unmolested; contemporaneous; early.
Verbs for Withdrawal
advise—; advocate—; announce—; attend —; begrudge—; contemplate—; consider—; curtail—; promote—; recommend—; regard —; shrink from—; subject to—; —closes; — devoids; —disturbs; —ebbs; —evacuates; —strains; —taxes.
Thesaurus
Jim Crow, abandonment, abdication, abjuration, abjurement, abolishment, abolition, abrogation, absentation, abstraction, abulia, agreement to disagree, alienation, aloneness, aloofness, anesthesia, annulment, anxiety, anxiety equivalent, anxiety state, apartheid, apartness, apathy, apostasy, autism, autistic thinking, avoidance mechanism, avulsion, backwardness, bashfulness, blame-shifting, blankness, boredom, cancel, canceling, cancellation, carelessness, cassation, casting away, catatonia, catatonic stupor, celibacy, cessation, chill, chilliness, clearance, cold blood, cold heart, coldheartedness, coldness, compensation, compulsion, constraint, coolness, counter-culture, countermand, counterorder, cutting out, deadpan, decampment, decompensation, defeasance, defense mechanism, dejection, demission, denial, departure, deportation, deposal, depression, deracination, dereism, dereistic thinking, desuetude, detachment, difference, disaccord, disagreement, disapprobation, disapproval, disarticulation, disassociation, disavowal, discard, disclaimer, disclamation, disconnectedness, disconnection, discontinuity, discreetness, discretion, disengagement, disentanglement, disinterest, disinterestedness, disjointing, disjunction, dislocation, disowning, disownment, disparity, dispassion, dispassionateness, displacement, disposal, disposition, dissatisfaction, dissension, dissent, dissentience, dissidence, dissociation, distance, disunion, disuse, diversity, division, divorce, divorcement, drawing, drawing out, dredging, drilling, dropping out, dullness, egress, ejection, elation, elimination, emeritus status, emotional deadness, emotional insulation, emotionalism, emotionlessness, enucleation, eradication, escape, escape into fantasy, escape mechanism, escapism, euphoria, evacuation, evolvement, evulsion, excavation, excision, exile, exit, exodus, expatriation, expression, expressionlessness, expulsion, exsection, extirpation, extraction, extrication, fallback, fantasizing, fantasy, flight, folie du doute, forced resignation, forsaking, forswearing, frigidity, frostiness, getaway, going, guardedness, heartlessness, heedlessness, hegira, hypochondria, hysteria, hysterics, iciness, immovability, impassibility, impassiveness, impassivity, impersonality, inaccessibility, incoherence, incuriosity, incuriousness, indifference, indifferentism, indifferentness, inexcitability, insensibility, insouciance, intellectual inertia, introversion, invalidation, isolation, isolationism, jettison, jettisoning, keeping apart, lack of affect, lack of feeling, lack of interest, lack of touch, leaving, lethargy, liquidation, listlessness, loneliness, loneness, lonesomeness, luxation, mania, melancholia, mental distress, mining, minority opinion, modesty, moving apart, negativism, nonagreement, nonassent, nonconcurrence, nonconformity, nonconsent, nullification, objectivity, obsession, obtuseness, opposition, ostracism, outlawing, outlawry, overcompensation, palinode, palinody, parting, partition, passing, passionlessness, pathological indecisiveness, poker face, preoccupation, pressing out, privacy, privatism, privatization, projection, psychalgia, psychomotor disturbance, psychotaxis, pullback, pulling, pulling out, pullout, purge, quarantine, quarrying, rationalization, recall, recantation, recedence, receding, recess, recession, reclusion, reculade, recusance, recusancy, regardlessness, rejection, relinquishment, remoteness, removal, renege, reneging, renouncement, renunciation, repeal, repression, repudiation, rescinding, rescindment, rescission, reserve, reservedness, resignation, resistance, restraint, reticence, reticency, retiral, retirement, retractation, retractility, retraction, retreat, retrocedence, reversal, revocation, revoke, revokement, riddance, ripping out, rustication, secession, seclusion, secrecy, segmentation, segregation, self-absorption, separateness, separation, separatism, sequestration, setting aside, severance, single blessedness, sociological adjustive reactions, solitariness, solitude, soullessness, spiritlessness, splendid isolation, squeezing out, standoffishness, stolidity, straight face, stupor, subdivision, sublimation, substitution, subtraction, superannuation, suppression, suspension, throwing overboard, tic, twitching, unaffability, unapproachability, unconcern, uncongeniality, undemonstrativeness, underground, unemotionalism, unexcitability, unexpansiveness, unfeeling, unfeelingness, unimpressibility, unimpressionableness, uninquisitiveness, uninterestedness, unmindfulness, unpassionateness, unresponsiveness, unrooting, unsaying, unsusceptibility, unsympatheticness, untouchability, uprooting, vacation, vacatur, variance, voidance, voiding, voluntary resignation, waiver, waiving, walkout, wish-fulfillment fantasy, wishful thinking, withdrawment, withdrawnness, wresting out, write-off, zoning
Etymology
From withdraw.
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