Withdrawal
[wɪð'drɔː(ə)l] or [wɪð'drɔəl]
Definition
(noun.) the act of withdrawing; 'the withdrawal of French troops from Vietnam'.
(noun.) the termination of drug taking.
(noun.) the act of ceasing to participate in an activity.
(noun.) the act of taking out money or other capital.
(noun.) the act of withdrawing blood, tumors, etc.; 'the nurse was expert at the withdrawal of blood'.
(noun.) a retraction of a previously held position.
(noun.) avoiding emotional involvement.
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Definition
(n.) The act of withdrawing; withdrawment; retreat; retraction.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Abduction, withdrawing, removal, withdrawment.[2]. Departure, exit, retirement, leave, going away.
Typist: Vilma
Examples
- The time having come for her withdrawal for the night, and she having left us, I gave Mr. Wickfield my hand, preparatory to going away myself. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- But the withdrawal alters the stimuli operating, and tends to make them more consonant with the needs of the organism. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The withdrawal of Hancock from the right uncovered one road from Spottsylvania to Fredericksburg over which trains drew our supplies. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Learning was not indeed so complete a withdrawal from ordinary life as initiation into a priesthood, but it was still something in that nature. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Sir Percival neither noticed the restraint in her reception of him, nor her sudden withdrawal from our society. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The rise of her blood as their eyes met was succeeded by a contrary motion, a wave of resistance and withdrawal. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Have their places filled up in the line so if possible the enemy will not notice their withdrawal. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- On Carry Fisher's part the withdrawal was perhaps not quite involuntary. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- But Crassus was less quick than Darius to realize the need of withdrawal, and the Parthians were better bowmen than the Scythians Darius met. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The faults will not, I hope, be a reason for the withdrawal of your interest in him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I contemplate at least a temporary withdrawal from the management of much business, whether benevolent or commercial. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- They had gambled deeply in the prospective looting of Manchuria and China, and they would suffer no withdrawal. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This soon led to a request from France that we should withdraw our troops from the Rio Grande and to negotiations for the withdrawal of theirs. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- She had nothing else to tell him but that Lizzie Hexam's secret had no reference whatever to the cruel charge, or its withdrawal. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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