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Withdrawal

noun

A retraction of a previously held position. Synonyms: backdown, climb-down.

The act of taking out money or other capital.

The act of withdrawing.

Avoiding emotional involvement. Synonym: detachment.

The act of withdrawing blood, tumors, etc..

The act of ceasing to participate in an activity.

A method of birth control in which coitus is initiated but the penis is deliberately withdrawn before ejaculation. Synonyms: coitus interruptus, onanism, pulling out, withdrawal method.

Formal separation from an alliance or federation. Synonym: secession.

The termination of drug taking. Synonym: drug withdrawal.

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"Withdrawal" Quotes from Famous Books

... of independence but a radical stroke at the democratic element in the local Constitution. They relied on physical force to carry out such a policy, and hence they looked on the demand of the people for a withdrawal of the troops as equivalent to a demand for the abandonment of their policy and the abdication of the Government. The partial removal already made caused great chagrin. The report, at first, was hardly credited in British political circles, and, when confirmed, was construed ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863 • Various

... from French, English, and Italian; and he was soon able to send help towards providing education for the youngest of the household of twelve children in the Camenz parsonage. In 1753 he gave himself eight weeks of withdrawal from other work to write, in a garden-house at Potsdam, his tragedy of "Miss Sarah Sampson." It was produced with great success at Frankfort on the Oder, and Lessing's ruling passion for dramatic literature ...

— Nathan the Wise • Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

... angel of the fags incited him to examine the freight, and, after examination, to convoy the hurdle himself up to the School-house; and the Doctor, who had long had his eye on Flashman, arranged for his withdrawal next morning. ...

— Tom Brown's Schooldays • Thomas Hughes

... justified at the bar of conscience by the plausible suggestion that, since the anger of the Sorbonne had been directed specially against Meaux, the evangelical preachers could be more serviceable elsewhere. But, from the mere withdrawal of support to positive measures of repression, the transition was both ...

— The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) • Henry Martyn Baird

... for their existence upon the non-Zionists, who may now by the force of reaction be driven into anti-Zionism. But the progress of these institutions just as largely depends upon those who are Zionists. The withdrawal of the Zionists from American Jewish work—and such withdrawal may become a moral duty for the Zionists who are loyal to the movement and respect their convictions—might mean a complete standstill in the life of American Jewry. Perhaps there are a few among us who are skeptical about the fate of ...

— The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915 • Various

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