Crossword clues for withdrawal
withdrawal
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Withdrawal \With*draw"al\, n.
The act of withdrawing; withdrawment; retreat; retraction.
--Fielding.
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 from 1916; meaning "physical reaction to the cessation of an addictive substance" is from 1929 (with an isolated use from 1897; withdrawal symptom is from 1910). As a synonym for coitus interruptus from 1889.
Wiktionary
n. 1 Receiving from someone's care what one has earlier entrusted to them. Usually refers to money. 2 A method of birth control which consists of removing the penis from the vagina before ejaculation. 3 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 4 An act of withdrawing.
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]
the termination of drug taking [syn: drug withdrawal]
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, or to lead the enemy into an ambush. It is considered a relatively risky operation, requiring discipline to keep from turning into a disorganized rout or at the very least doing severe damage to the military's morale.
Withdrawal means "an act of taking out" and may refer to:
- Anchoresis (withdrawal from the world for religious or ethical reasons)
- Coitus interruptus (the withdrawal method)
- Drug withdrawal
- Social withdrawal
- Taking of money from a bank
- Withdrawal (military)
- Withdrawal reflex
- Withdrawal, Twista/ Do or Die EP
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.