has particulars: effacement, self-effacement, retreat, retirement, retreat, evacuation, decampment, abandonment, defection, desertion, pullback, retreat, receding, recession

Derived forms verb withdraw₁₂, verb withdraw₆, verb withdraw₁₁, verb withdraw₃, verb withdraw₁, verb withdraw₈, verb withdraw₇

withdrawal(n = noun.feeling) detachment - avoiding emotional involvement; Array

is a kind of indifference

Derived form verb withdraw₁₀

withdrawal(n = noun.act) Array - the act of withdrawing blood, tumors, etc.; "the nurse was expert at the withdrawal of blood"

is a kind of

remotion

removal

withdrawal(n = noun.act) Array - the act of ceasing to participate in an activity; Array

is a kind of

separation

withdrawal(n = noun.act) coitus interruptus, onanism, pulling out, withdrawal method - a method of birth control in which coitus is initiated but the penis is deliberately withdrawn before ejaculation; Array

is a kind of birth control, birth prevention, family planning

withdrawal(n = noun.act) secession - formal separation from an alliance or federation; Array

is a kind of separation

has particulars: breakaway, breaking away

Derived form verb withdraw₂

withdrawal(n = noun.act) drug withdrawal - the termination of drug taking; Array

is a kind of conclusion, ending, termination

has particulars: cold turkey

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CIDE DICTIONARY

withdrawal, n.

The act of withdrawing; withdrawment; retreat; retraction. Fielding. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

withdrawal, n.
1 the act or an instance of withdrawing or being withdrawn.
2 a process of ceasing to take addictive drugs, often with an unpleasant physical reaction (withdrawal symptoms).
3 = coitus interruptus.

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THESAURUS

withdrawal

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

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ROGET THESAURUS

withdrawal

Tergiversation

N tergiversation, change of mind, change of intention, change of purpose, afterthought, tergiversation, recantation, palinode, palinody, renunciation, abjuration, abjurement, defection, going over, apostasy, retraction, retractation, withdrawal, disavowal, revocation, revokement, reversal, repentance, redintegratio amoris, coquetry, vacillation, backsliding, volte-face, turn coat, turn tippet, rat, apostate, renegade, convert, pervert, proselyte, deserter, backslider, blackleg, crawfish, scab, mugwump, recidivist, time server, time pleaser, timist, Vicar of Bray, trimmer, ambidexter, weathercock, Janus, changeful, irresolute, ductile, slippery as an eel, trimming, ambidextrous, timeserving, coquetting, revocatory, reactionary, a change came o'er the spirit of my dream.

Relinquishment

N relinquishment, abandonment, desertion, defection, secession, withdrawal, cave of Adullam, nolle prosequi, discontinuance, renunciation, abrogation, resignation, desuetude, cession, unpursued, relinquished, relinquishing, Int, avast!, aufgeschoben ist nicht aufgehoben, entbehre gern was du nicht hast, relinquishment, abandonment, renunciation, expropriation, dereliction, cession, surrender, dispensation, quitclaim deed, resignation, riddance, derelict, foundling, jetsam, waif, discards, culls, rejects, garbage, refuse, rubbish, relinquished, cast off, derelict, unowned, unappropriated, unculled, left, Int, away with!.

Subtraction

N nonaddition, subtraction, subtraction, subduction, deduction, retrenchment, removal, withdrawal, ablation, sublation, abstraction, garbling mutilation, detruncation, amputation, abscission, excision, recision, curtailment, minuend, subtrahend, decrease, abrasion, subtracted, subtractive, in deduction, less, short of, minus, without, except, except for, excepting, with the exception of, barring, save, exclusive of, save and except, with a reservation, not counting, if one doesn't count.

Taking

N taking, reception, deglutition, appropriation, prehension, prensation, capture, caption, apprehension, deprehension, abreption, seizure, expropriation, abduction, ablation, subtraction, withdrawal, abstraction, ademption, adrolepsy, dispossession, deprivation, deprivement, bereavement, divestment, disherison, distraint, distress, sequestration, confiscation, eviction, rapacity, rapaciousness, extortion, vampirism, theft, resumption, reprise, reprisal, recovery, clutch, swoop, wrench, grip, haul, take, catch, scramble, taker, captor, subduction, taking, privative, prehensile, predaceous, predal, predatory, predatorial, lupine, rapacious, raptorial, ravenous, parasitic, bereft, at one fell swoop, give an inch and take an ell.

Regression

N regress, regression, retrocession, retrogression, retrograduation, retroaction, reculade, retreat, withdrawal, retirement, remigration, recession, recess, crab-like motion, refluence, reflux, backwater, regurgitation, ebb, return, resilience reflection, reflexion (recoil), flip-flop, volte-face, counter motion, retrograde motion, backward movement, motion in reverse, counter movement, counter march, veering, tergiversation, recidivation, backsliding, fall, deterioration, recidivism, recidivity, reversal, relapse, turning point, receding, retrograde, retrogressive, regressive, refluent, reflex, recidivous, resilient, crab-like, balky, reactionary, back, backwards, reflexively, to the right about, a reculons, a rebours, revenons a nos moutons, as you were.

Recession

N recession, retirement, withdrawal, retreat, retrocession, departure, recoil, flight, receding, distance oneself from a person.

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