withdrawal
IPA: wɪðdrˈɔʌɫ
noun
- 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 (such as a drug) on which a patient is dependent is withheld.
- An act of withdrawing or a state of being withdrawn.
- The sum of money taken from a bank account.
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Examples of "withdrawal" in Sentences
- And the deadline Obama set to begin withdrawal is nine months away.
- The analogy of giving more alcohol to an alcoholic in withdrawal is quite apt.
- "I don't use the term withdrawal because I don't think we can just pick up and leave,"
- Did you even read this part above: "I don't use the term withdrawal because I don't think we can just pick up and leave," Powers said.
- Instead, it is a troubled and uncertain withdrawal from the mimetic closure of defensive polemic and sympathetic attachmentfor the sake of something aesthetic.
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