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withdrawal

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A withdrawal is a type of military operation , generally meaning retreating forces back while maintaining contact with the enemy. A withdrawal may be undertaken as part of a general retreat, to consolidate forces, to occupy ground that is more easily defended, ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES withdrawal symptoms (= symptoms you get when you stop taking a substance ) ▪ People who try to give up smoking usually get withdrawal symptoms. withdrawal symptoms COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE complete ▪ This ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Withdrawal \With*draw"al\, n. The act of withdrawing; withdrawment; retreat; retraction. --Fielding.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a retraction of a previously held position [syn: backdown , climb-down ] the act of taking out money or other capital the act of withdrawing avoiding emotional involvement [syn: detachment ] formal separation from an alliance or federation [syn: secession ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1820s, "act of taking back," also "retraction of a statement," from withdraw + -al (2). Earlier words in the same sense were withdrawment (1640s); withdraught (mid-14c.). Meaning "removal of money from a bank, etc." is from 1861; psychological sense is ...

Usage examples of withdrawal.

I have read that babies whose mothers are addicted to heroin will themselves suffer withdrawal pangs.

Vita, suffering H withdrawal, refused to participate, and Orlene, appalled at what she had learned, had retreated to passivity again.

And this power extends to the withdrawal of appellate jurisdiction even in pending cases.

Many, also, who were not aware of the circumstances attending his withdrawal from Paris, were struck with the worthy appearance, the gentlemanly bearing, and the knowledge of the world displayed by the old patrician, who certainly played the nobleman very well, so long as he said nothing, and made no arithmetical calculations.

She only witnessed the withdrawal of the armthe fair round arm of a woman but twenty-five years old, and who yet spread death around her.

They go into that sort of depression during withdrawal after the pains quit, Biset says.

After the muffle has cooled down for the withdrawal of the last batch, and the old cupels have been taken out, the new cupels for the next batch should be put in their place.

Twenty hours after his arrival, WarAvocat consulted his Deified about the advisability of withdrawal.

Ambassador Diol likened their situation to the planet Bajor after the Cardassian withdrawal, an opinion with which the Federation Council agrees.

No therapy and no plan at present, emersion in fantasy, progressive withdrawal and isolation.

Possibly some such plan might have had some chance of success had the forces of the Entente been concentrated upon a single effort, and optimistic critics anticipated a breach to the north of Verdun which might close or at least threaten the neck of the German bottle between Metz and Limburg and precipitate a withdrawal from their carefully prepared positions in northern France and Belgium.

First the tentative withdrawal, and now the ingenuous response, was more erotic than any flagrant vice of the most skilled lover.

When fused drop in an iron rod for a few minutes, and about a couple of minutes after its withdrawal, pour the charge quickly into a large conical mould.

Elfland had gone, though here and there Alveric saw again and again those little forsaken things that had been lost from his childhood, dropping through time to the ageless and hourless region of Elfland to be a part of its glory, and now left forlorn by this immense withdrawal.

He ate a colossal dinner, became increasingly playful with Huia, and, on her final withdrawal, leant back in his chair, sucked his teeth, produced a cigar case and was about to offer it to Gaunt when at last Dr.