withdrawal

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the act of withdrawing

   the withdrawal of French troops from Vietnam

2. 2
   noun

   the act of withdrawing blood, tumors, etc.

   the nurse was expert at the withdrawal of blood

3. 3
   noun

   Receiving from someone's care what one has earlier entrusted to them. Usually refers to money.

   In view of the second aspect of its control function, the Federal Reserve Board prohibits, with specified limited exceptions, the wisthdrawal of securities from general accounts where such withdrawals would undermargin such accounts.

4. 4
   noun

   A type of metabolic shock the body undergoes when a substance (such as a drug) on which a patient is dependent is withheld.

   heroin withdrawal

5. 5
   noun

   An act of withdrawing or a state of being withdrawn.

   On withdrawal [from service], it was restored to its Caledonian blue livery, and is now preserved at St. Rollox.

6. 6
   noun

   the termination of drug taking

7. 7
   noun

   formal separation from an alliance or federation

8. 8
   noun

   a method of birth control in which coitus is initiated but the penis is deliberately withdrawn before ejaculation

Etymology

From withdraw + -al.