What is the difference between withdrawal and withdraw?
As a noun withdrawal is receiving from someone’s care what one has earlier entrusted to them usually refers to money. As a verb withdraw is to pull (something) back, aside, or away.
withdrawal
Noun
(en 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, 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.
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withdraw
English
Verb
To pull (something) back, aside, or away.
* Hooker
- Impossible it is that God should withdraw his presence from anything.
To take back (a comment, etc).
- to withdraw false charges
To remove, to stop providing (one’s support, etc).
To extract (money from an account).
To retreat.
To be in withdrawal from an addictive drug etc.
* 1994 , (Edward St Aubyn), Bad News , Picador 2006, p. 201:
- Simon had tried to rob a bank while he was withdrawing , but he had been forced to surrender to the police after they had fired several volleys at him.
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