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Withdrawal

Definitions: Withdrawal

Withdrawal

Noun

1. A retraction of a previously held position.

2. The act of taking out money or other capital.

3. The act of withdrawing.

4. Avoiding emotional involvement.

5. Formal separation from an alliance or federation.

6. The termination of drug taking.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "withdrawal" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1415. (references)


Specialty Definitions: Withdrawal

DomainDefinitions

Business

Since the owner of a single proprietorship does not receive a salary, he. . . withdraws cash and other assets from the business for his personal use. He makes these -- against the net income he anticipates. . Source: European Union. (references)

Economics

Perpetual inventory: a method of keeping an inventory record by noting on stock record cards each -- from or addition to inventory. . Source: European Union. (references)

Finance

A removal of funds from a savings or checking account by the account's owner. (references)

Health

1. a pathological retreat from interpersonal contact and social involvement, as may occur in schizophrenia, depression, or schizoid avoidant and schizotypal personality disorders. 2. (DSM III-R) a substance-specific organic brain syndrome that follows the cessation of use or reduction in intake of a psychoactive substance that had been regularly used to induce a state of intoxication. (references)

Hydrologic

Water removed from a ground- or surface-water source for use. (references)

Immigration

An arriving alien's voluntary retraction of an application for admission to the United States in lieu of a removal hearing before an immigration judge or an expedited removal. Withdrawals are not included in nonimmigrant admission data. (references)

Insurance

A member's voluntary renunciation of membership. Source: European Union. (references)

Law

An act by which an offender, of his own volition, desists from completing a criminal act which he has initiated. Source: European Union. (references)

Medicine

Psychotic disorders characterised by withdrawal from reality. Source: European Union. (references)

Mining

Segregation of particular lands from the operation of specified public land laws, making those laws inapplicable to those lands. Lands may be withdrawn from all or any part of the public land laws, including themineral location and mineral leasing laws. (references)

Post & Telecom

In PLMN:an action taken by the service provider to remove an available service from a subscriber's access. The withdrawal may be general, where the service is removed from all subscribers provided with the service, or, specific, where the service is removed on an individual basis from subscribers provided with the service. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Withdrawal

Synonyms: backdown (n), climb-down (n), detachment (n), drug withdrawal (n), secession (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Withdrawal

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Money

Note, note of hand; promissory note, I O U; draft, check, cheque, back-dated check; negotiable order of withdrawal, NOW.

Nonaddition Subtraction

Noun: subtraction, subduction; deduction, retrenchment; removal, withdrawal; ablation, sublation; abstraction; (taking); garbling; Verb: mutilation, detruncation; amputation; abscission, excision, recision; curtailment; minuend, subtrahend; decrease; abrasion.

Recession

Noun: recession, retirement, withdrawal; retreat; retrocession; departure; recoil; flight; (avoidance).

Regression

Noun: regress, regression; retrocession, retrogression, retrograduation, retroaction; reculade; retreat, withdrawal, retirement, remigration; recession; (motion from); recess; crab-like motion.

Relinquishment

Noun: relinquishment, abandonment; desertion, defection, secession, withdrawal; cave of Adullam; nolle prosequi.

Taking

Noun: taking; Verb: reception; (taking in); deglutition; (taking food); appropriation, prehension, prensation; capture, caption; apprehension, deprehension; abreption, seizure, expropriation, abduction, ablation; subtraction, withdrawal; abstraction, ademption; adrolepsy.

Tergiversation

Tergiversation, recantation; palinode, palinody; renunciation; abjuration,abjurement; defection; (relinquishment); going over; Verb: apostasy; retraction, retractation; withdrawal; disavowal; (negation); revocation, revokement; reversal; repentance; -redintegratio amoris.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Withdrawal

English words defined with "withdrawal": 401-k, 401-k planabient, Absentment, addict, alcohol addiction, alcoholism, aloofnessbank withdrawal, battle of Monmouth Court House, battle of Pittsburgh Landing, battle of Shilohcatheter, cold turkeydementia praecox, disinvestment, distance, drug withdrawal, drunkennessEloignment, Exody, extinguishedfetoscopy, foetoscopy, freeze, freezinginfantile autism, isolationLatescenceMonmouth Court HouseNonsuitoxazepamquietismredeployment, redisposition, retirement, retreatschizoid, schizophrenia, schizophrenic disorder, schizophrenic psychosis, securely, Serax, Shiloh, standdownunderstoodwithdrawal method, withdrawal symptom, withdrawing, Withdrawment. (references)
Specialty definitions using "withdrawal": abstinence syndrome, affected Member, Air Padding, Alcohol Withdrawal Delirium, amphibious withdrawal, Animal drugsbucket augerCausa Causata, certificate account, Chlormethiazole, Cone of Depression, Cone of Influence, cross-dependencedaily interest account, Delta Sleep-Inducing Peptide, Denver cell, Dual-Phase ExtractionExchange Transfusion, Whole Bloodfixed ground watergib-head key, gradual withdrawal, GRINDER SET-UP OPERATOR, THREAD TOOLHARDNESS TESTERImports For Consumption, industrial water use, insertion or withdrawal forcelazy legM1, Massacre of the Innocents, Mining of an Aquifernegotiable order of withdrawal, negotiable order of withdrawal account, Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome, nine-point sample, notice account, NUCLEAR-PLANT TECHNICAL ADVISORore bin, overall drilling timePASTE MIXER, penalty clause, perpetual inventory, Petrosal Sinus Sampling, physical dependence capacity, pile carpet, precision-thread-grinder operator, proof clerk, PROOF-MACHINE OPERATORQUALITY-CONTROL CLERKredemption of accounts, Resuscitation Orderssame day funds, SECURITIES CLERK, static level, Substance Withdrawal Syndrome, Super NOW account, SUPERVISOR, STATEMENT CLERKS, Sustained Overdraftteller's check, tenancy in common, textile floor covering with pile, Thiorphan, thread-grinder, tool, transaction account, transit clerkWarehouse Withdrawal for Transportation, Warehouse Withdrawal for Transportation Exportation, Warehouse Withdrawal for Transportation Immediate Exportation, water use, withdrawal form, withdrawal from circulation, withdrawal operation, withdrawal ratio, withdrawal treatment, withdrawal value, Women. (references)
Etymologies containing "withdrawal": Exody. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Withdrawal" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Dutch (withdrawal).

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Modern Usage: Withdrawal

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Actually, I'm making a withdrawal. (Road to Perdition; writing credit: Max Allan Collins; Richard Piers Rayner)

I got a job at a sperm bank where I knew he made a deposit and I simply made a withdrawal. (Santa Barbara; writing credit: Meg Bennett; Bettina F. Bradbury)

Simon, after the riot, you went into severe heroin withdrawal. I thought you kicked the habit? (Oz; writing credit: Pavel Srut)

Are you going to go on withdrawal if you're away from that thing for too long? (The Agency; writing credit: Richard Fidler)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Withdrawal

DomainTitle

Books

  • The Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan (reference)

  • The Withdrawal of Rights: Rights from a Different Perspective (Synthese Library, 314) (reference)

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Music

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Image Slideshow: Withdrawal

Computer Images:
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Photo Album: Withdrawal

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Some of the structures remaining on the Coast Guard withdrawal adjacent to the BLM area. Credit: Jerry Sintz.

Louisiana--the withdrawal of the federal troops from the State House in New Orleans, at noon, on April 24th / From sketches by our special artist, A.J. Bennett. Credit: Library of Congress.

Withdrawal. Credit: Library of Congress.

In the name of humanity, vote no on the question of immediate withdrawal from Viet Nam. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Historic Usage: Withdrawal

AuthorDateQuotation

Treaty of Versailles

1919

Any fully self-governing State, Dominion, or Colony not named in the Annex may become a Member of the League if its admission is agreed to by two-thirds of the Assembly provided that it shall give effective guarantees of its sincere intention to observe its international obligations, and shall accept such regulations as may be prescribed by the League in regard to its military, naval, and air forces and armaments.Any Member of the League may, after two years' notice of its intention so to do, withdraw from the League, provided that all its international obligations and all its obligations under this Covenant shall have been fulfilled at the time of its withdrawal. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Withdrawal

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Addiction to nicotine results in withdrawal symptoms when a person tries to stop smoking. (references)

Persons suffering from withdrawal also take longer to regain emotional equilibrium following stress. (references)

Smokers tend to sleep very lightly and often wake up in the early morning due to nicotine withdrawal. (references)

Business

It also provided for the continued presence of British, French, and American troops in Berlin during the interim period of the Soviet withdrawal. (references)

European firms have also been making great efforts to enter the local auto component market, but posed no big threat so far, especially after Peugeot withdrawal in 1997. The German Bosch Co. Has set up an office in the Guangzhou Huangpu Economic & Technological Development Zone aiming at the ABS project. (references)

However, there has been some concern about the level of Commonwealth funding allocated to dental health services, since the abolition in 1996 of the Commonwealth Dental Health Program (CDHP). The issue was considered by a Senate (Parliamentary) Inquiry into Public Dental Services provisions in 1998. While waiting lists for public sector dental treatment have increased significantly since the withdrawal of the CDHP, State Governments, which manage and fund the majority of public sector dental services, have increased funding to the sector and, in some cases, introduced new funding policies. (references)

Children

Congo

Parents under severe economic hardship no longer can afford to educate both their sons and their daughters, resulting in the withdrawal of many girls from school. (references)

Netherlands

The Council for the Protection of Children, operated through the Ministry of Justice, enforces child support orders, investigates cases of child abuse, and recommends remedies ranging from counseling to withdrawal of parental rights. (references)

Civil Liberties

Angola

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) recommended the withdrawal of the draft law. (references)

Economic History

Lebanon

UNIFIL has recorded numerous violations of the Blue Line by both sides since Israeli withdrawal. (references)

Libya

An early objective of the new government was withdrawal of all foreign military installations from Libya. (references)

Chad

Libya did not honor the withdrawal accord, and its forces continued to occupy the northern third of Chad. (references)

Human Rights

United Kingdom

Approximately one-third of these cases were closed due to noncooperation or withdrawal by the complainant. (references)

Lebanon

Since the Israeli withdrawal in May 2000, there have been 26 deaths and 167 injuries as a result of landmine accidents. (references)

Lebanon

Prior to the Israeli withdrawal from the south, Hizballah detained and reportedly mistreated SLA members and suspected agents at unknown locations. (references)

Political Economy

Israel

On September 28, 1995, the Interim Agreement was signed, calling for a phased Israeli withdrawal from certain areas of the West Bank. (references)

Lebanon

In FY2001, following the Israeli withdrawal from South Lebanon, assistance in Economic Support Funds (ESF) increased from this $12 million annual level to $35 million. (references)

Lebanon

Strong Syrian influence over Lebanese politics and decision makers makes officials unwilling to press for further progress on fulfilling Taif agreements, including Syrian withdrawal. (references)

Political Rights

Burma

Two days after its withdrawal, the NLD was expelled formally. (references)

Russia

Following a December 10 meeting with President Putin, Nikolayev announced his withdrawal from the race and declared his support for Shtyrov. (references)

Ethiopia

Opposition parties subsequently announced their withdrawal from the February elections, which was followed by the withdrawal of opposition party members from seats in the Addis Ababa municipal council. (references)

Trade

Greece

In order to facilitate a fast and effective withdrawal of drachma banknotes and their replacement by euro banknotes and coins, commercial banks will not make any payment in drachmas in over-the-counter transactions, after Monday, 31 December 2001. (references)

Travel

Kenya

The GOK is keen to ensure that all imports conform to the stipulated technical specifications; any flaws detected could result in the withdrawal of the product from the market, prosecution of the manufacturer and the retailer/importer, or both. (references)

Women

Cote d'Ivoire

However, a victim's own parents often urge withdrawal of a complaint because of the shame that attaches to the entire family. (references)

Worker Rights

Korea

Disputes concerning the implementation of the agreement among labor, management, and government representatives led to the withdrawal of the KCTU representatives in 1999. In the past, regulations forbade intervention in disputes by so-called third parties, such as labor federations not recognized by the Government. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Speeches: Withdrawal

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

John F. Kennedy

1961-1963Our resolution will call for the prompt dismantling and withdrawal of all offensive weapons in Cuba, under the supervision of United Nations observers, before the quarantine can be lifted.

Richard Nixon

1969-1974This withdrawal will be made from strength and not from weakness.

Jimmy Carter

1977-1981In a few days we will observe an historic event when Israel makes another major withdrawal from the Sinai and when Ambassadors will be exchanged between Israel and Egypt.

Ronald Reagan

1981-1989The children, born in withdrawal, are sometimes even dropped on her doorstep.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Withdrawal

"Withdrawal" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.85% of the time. "Withdrawal" is used about 2,013 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)99.85%2,0104,290
Noun (common)0.1%2245,945
Noun (proper)0.05%1339,140
                    Total100.00%2,013N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Withdrawal

Expressions using "withdrawal": Alcohol Withdrawal Delirium Alcohol Withdrawal Seizures amphibious withdrawal bank withdrawal cash withdrawal drug withdrawal gradual withdrawal insertion or withdrawal force negotiable order of withdrawal Negotiable Order of Withdrawal Account notice of withdrawal phased withdrawal Substance Withdrawal Syndrome withdrawal cure withdrawal from withdrawal from circulation withdrawal method withdrawal of money withdrawal operation withdrawal symptom withdrawal symptoms withdrawal syndrome withdrawal treatment. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "withdrawal": line-of-withdrawal, post-withdrawal.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Withdrawal

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

paxil withdrawal

212

drug withdrawal

35

effexor withdrawal

155

oxycontin withdrawal

34

alcohol withdrawal

146

wellbutrin withdrawal

31

nicotine withdrawal

132

opiate withdrawal

29

caffeine withdrawal

99

401k hardship withdrawal

28

zoloft withdrawal

92

hydrocodone withdrawal

27

celexa withdrawal

78

effexor symptom withdrawal

25

withdrawal

76

zoloft withdrawal symptom

25

401k withdrawal

76

klonopin withdrawal

24

ira withdrawal

72

ira early withdrawal

23

alcohol withdrawal symptom

65

401k early withdrawal

23

withdrawal xanax

51

ativan withdrawal

21

paxil withdrawal symptom

51

smoking withdrawal

21

prozac withdrawal

47

meridia withdrawal

21

nicotine withdrawal symptom

45

caffeine symptom withdrawal

20

withdrawal symptom

43

smoking withdrawal symptom

18

lexapro withdrawal

43

ssri withdrawal

18

401 k withdrawal

38

codeine withdrawal

18

vicodin withdrawal

37

narcotic withdrawal

18

prednisone withdrawal

36

effexor xr withdrawal

17
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Withdrawal

Language Translations for "withdrawal"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

veçim (detachment, disjunction, dissociation, disunion, divorce, insularity, insulation, isolation, retirement, seclusion, segregation, separation), tërheqje (affinity, allurement, appeal, appetence, appetency, attraction, attractiveness, crush, draw, drawing, enchantment, enticement, haul, jerk, lure, magnetization, pull, pullback, recall, recession, recoil, retirement, retraction, retreat, revocation, strain, stretch, tow, traction, tug), mbyllje në vetvete. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏سحب (call, dash, disengage, draft, drag, dragging, draught, draw, drawing, drawing out, hang fire, haul, heave, lug, pull, recall, recant, retreat, revoke, revulsion, run, strain, take back, take off, tow, traction, trail, train, tug, withdraw), ‏إنقطاع عن, ‏إنسحاب (cave, drop out, recession, retraction, retreat, retreating, secession), ‏إرتداد (apostasy, bounce, defection, kick, rebound, recall, recantation, recess, recoil, reflection, reflexion, regress, relapse, renunciation, repercussion, retroversion, reverberation), ‏رجوع تقهقر. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

отстъпление (backtrack, departure, digression, excursion, retreat), оттегляне (abandonment, adjournment, backdown, disengagement, recession, reflux, retirement), отнемане (deprivation), отменяне (abatement, annulment, cancellation, recall, recision, repeal, rescission, retractation, reversal, revocation, undoing), отдръпване (backdown, backstroke, dodge, recession, recoil, retirement), затваряне в себе си, изтегляне от обръщение, изтегляне (draw, drawing, elongation, evacuation, exhaustion, extension, traction). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

'退 (Retreat, retreated, retreating). (various references)

   

Czech

  

zrušení (abolishment, abolition, abrogation, annulment, breach, cancellation, diriment, dissolution, recall, renunciation, repeal, rescission), vybrání, odvolání (abolishment, abolition, abrogation, appeal, countermand, recall, recantation, remedy, repeal, rescission, retractility, retraction, revocation), odchod (departure, exit, going, off with you). (various references)

   

Danish

  

udtagning, udtag (breakout, extraction, tap, transition), seponatur, optagning (lifting, picking), nedtrapning (drug withdrawal, to dry out), nedtagning (breakdown, discard, discarding, dismantling, recovery, removal, taking up, teardown), fjernelse (ablation, ablation(artificial), amotio, amputation, balatio, detachment, discard, excision, removal, subduction, taking up, traumatic amputation), autistisk tilbagetrukkethed, afvænning (ablactation, drug withdrawal, weaning), aflægning (cutting, discard, distribution, propagation by cuttings, removal, taking up), afgang (departure). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

withdrawal, uittreden (abdicate, exit, go out, quit, resign), uithalen (draw out, drive out, empty, express, give utterance to, pull out, utter), opname (acceptance, acceptation, admission, photograph), ontwennen (drug withdrawal), onttrekking (abstraction), het in zichzelf gekeerd zijn, herroeping (retrieval), herroepen (abjure, retrieve), aftaaien (drug withdrawal), afkicken (kick it). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

پس گرفتن (Abalienate, Recapture, Retreat, Retrieve, Withdraw), صرفنظرکردن (Betake, Calloff, Forget, Withdraw), بازگیری (Withdraw), بازگرفتن (Withdraw). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

peruutus (annulment, cancellation), otto (draw off, output). (various references)

   

French

  

retrait. (various references)

   

German

  

Rückzug (drawback, retirement, retraction, retreat), Abhebung, Zurückziehung, Rücktritt (abdication, recession, rescission, resignation, retirement), Entzug (revocation), Entziehung (deprivation, revocation), Entnahme (extraction, removal, taking out), Austritt (abdication, discharge, escape, exit, leaving, outflow, protrusion, resignation). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ανάκληση (abrogation, recall, recallment, repeal, retraction, revocation, withdrawament), αποχώρηση (departure from, recess, secession, walkout, withdrawament). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

"רתע" (deterrence, discouragement, recoiling), "סתלקות (abandonment, abscondence, departure, going), רתיע" (rebound, recoil, recoiling), רתוי (gentle, indulgent, leniency, lenient, mild, mildness, resignation), סי'" (recession, recoil, regression, retreat, setback). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

visszavonás (cancellation, recantation, repeal, retractation, retraction, revocation), kivonás (abstraction, deduction, eduction, phaseout, pulling out, recovery, subtracting, subtraction). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

pengambilan (interpretation, removal). (various references)

   

Italian

  

ritiro (evacuation, haunt, recession, reclamation, retirement, retreat, seclusion, takingback), prelevamento (drawing, taking). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

退却 (retirement, retreat), '退 (evacuation, repeal, retreat, revocation), '去 (repeal, revocation), '回 (repeal, revocation). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

たいきゃく (retirement, retreat), たいしゅつ (leaving), たいじ" (confrontation of armies, encampment, gentleman, man of substance or virtue, personal, retirement, retreat), しゅっき" (at work, contribution, financing, going to work, investment, payment), り つ (breakaway, secession, separation), とりさ', てったい (evacuation, repeal, retreat, revocation), てっしゅう, てっきょ (repeal, revocation), てっかい (repeal, revocation), ったい (retirement, secession), っかい (recapture, recovery, rescue). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

(Evacuating, Evacuation). (various references)

   

Manx

  

tayrn magh (drag out, draw out, elicit, evoke, extract, extraction, pluck out, pull out, rip out, withdraw, withdraw as money), tayrn er ash (draw back, draw off, pull back; revocation, retract, retractation, stand down, withdraw), goll ergooyl (get back, recede, recession, retire, retreat, retrogress, retrogression, reverse; neap tide, setback, tergiversation), goaill magh (delete, evacuate, evacuation, move out, take out, withdraw, withdraw as money), cooyllaghey (regress, regression, sternway). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ithdrawalway

   

Portuguese

  

revogação (abrogation, avoidance, countermand, defeasance, deprivation, recall, repeal, rescission, reversal, revocation, vacation), retratação (disbalance, disclamation, palisade, recantation, retractation, retraction), retractação, retracção (retraction), retiro (concealment, den, nest, privacy, resign, retirement, retreat, seclusion, sequestration), retirada, supressão, retirada (evacuee, fallback, pullout, recession, removal, remove, retire, retreat), ressaca (backwater, breakers, hangover, surf, underset, undertow, wash), extracção (conveying, draw, draw by lot, drawing, drawing by lot, extraction, haulage, load, output, pull, transport, transportation), desmame (ablactation), desintoxicação (de-intoxication, detoxication, detoxification, disintoxication, drug withdrawal), desabituação fisica (drug withdrawal), afastamento (abatement, aberrance, absence, alienation, departure, deviation, digression, distance, diversion, estrangement, leave off, pitch, rejection, removal, remove, revulsion, seclusion, separation), acto de retirar agua. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

retragere (backing, climb down, recall, recession, refuge, regress, retire, retirement, retiring, retraction, retreat, seclusion), retractare (recantation, retraction), plecare (departure, going, leave, offset, outset, parting, repair, setting off, setting out, start, starting), ordin de rechemare, dare înapoi. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

изъятие. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

prekid uzimanja droga, povlačenje (dragging, draw, pull back, recall, retirement, retreat, rout), podizanje (build up, heaving, heft, lifting, uplift), odustajanje (agive up, backtrack, quitclaim, release, renouncement, waiver). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

retirada (disengagement, recall, recession, retirement, retreat, walkout). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

tillbakadragande (pull back, retirement, withdrawing), avlägsnande (elimination). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

vazgeçme (abandonment, abnegation, backdown, cession, disclaimer, discontinuance, discontinuation, discouragement, dispensation, never say die, recantation, relinquishment, remise, remission, renunciation, resignation, surrender, waiver), tedavülden kaldırma (demonetization, retirement), para çekme (draft), iptal (abatement, abolition, abrogation, annihilation, annulment, avoidance, cancel, cancellation, cancelling, cassation, defeasance, defeat, dissolution, invalidation, nullification, nullity, recall, repeal, rescission, reversal, revocation, termination, void), gerileme (comedown, decadence, declension, decline, downgrade, recession, recessional, regress, regression, retreat, retrocession, retrogadation, retrogression, setback, throwback), geri alma (recall, resumption, retrieval, revocation, taking back), bırakma (abandonment, disuse, exposure, leaving, never say die, release, relinquishment, renunciation, resignation, surrender), çekme (allure, allurement, bearing, draft, draught, draw, drawing, extraction, haul, haulage, hitch, hoist, pluck, pull, pull off, pull out, shrinkage, shrinking, soak, throwback, towage, towaway, towing, traction), çekilme (abdication, breakaway, cession, contraction, defection, low water, pull off, pull out, reflux, resignation, retirement, walkout), çıkma (annotation, cantilever, egress, egression, emergence, expulsion, going out, going up, occurrence, outbreak, protrusion, pull out, rise). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

усунення (abolishment, abolition, amendment, amputation, dethronement, disposal, elimination, obviation, preclusion, removal), скасування (abolishment, abolition, abrogation, annihilation, cancel, cancellation, defeasance, demolition, nullification, repeal), відсмикування, відхід (breakaway, departure, leaving, outgo, outgoing, recession, recoil, sailing), відкликання (recall, revocation, revoke), відведення (abduction, assignation), відміна (abolishment, abolition, abrogation, annihilation, annulment, avoidance, defeasance, effacement, rescission, reversal, revocation, washout), відмовляння (abdication, abnegation), взяття назад (recapture), вилучення (amputation), знімання (skim), забирання. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Withdrawal

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

discessionem, egressio, secessum. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Withdrawal

Derivations

Words beginning with "withdrawal": withdrawals. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Withdrawal" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: widthdrawal, withdrawable, withdrawan, withdrawel, withdrawl, withdrawlal, withdrwal. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Withdrawal"

Words rhyming with "withdrawal" (pronounced 'With*draw"al'): Abyssal, Accrual, Accusal, Actinozoal, Adjournal, Albuminoidal, Amenorrhoeal, Anomal, Anthropoidal, Apogeal, Apohyal, Appraisal, Apprizal, Approval, Arachnoidal, Arctogeal, Arousal, Arrival, Asteroidal, Avowal, Axal, Balmoral, Banal, Basihyal, Beheadal, Bequeathal, Bestowal, Betrayal, Betrothal, Burghal, Carousal, Catarrhal, Cemental, Ceratohyal, Choroidal, Cital, Coastal, Cockal, Colloidal, Comprisal, Conchoidal, Conoidal, Convival, CORAL, Coralloidal, Cordal, Cotidal, Crinoidal, Croupal, Crustal. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Withdrawal

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-d-h-i-l-r-t-w-w"

-2 letters: withdraw.

-4 letters: atrial, awhirl, dahlia, hartal, hiatal, lariat, latria, radial, withal, wraith.

-5 letters: airth, altar, arhat, artal, atria, await, award, drail, drawl, hadal, halid, hilar, laari, lahar, laird, laith, lathi, liard, lidar, ratal, riata, talar, third, thirl, thraw, tiara, tidal, trail, trawl, triad, trial, twirl, whirl, width, wrath.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-d-h-i-l-r-t-w-w"
 

+1 letter: withdrawals.

 

+2 letters: withdrawable.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Withdrawal


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

57 69 74 68 64 72 61 77 61 6C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.--.    ..    -    ....    -..    .-.    .-    .--.    .-    .-..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010111 01101001 01110100 01101000 01100100 01110010 01100001 01110111 01100001 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#87 &#105 &#116 &#104 &#100 &#114 &#97 &#119 &#97 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0057 0069 0074 0068 0064 0072 0061 0077 0061 006C

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

57758674708467896778

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Historic
9. Quotations: Non-fiction
10. Quotations: Speeches
11. Usage Frequency
12. Expressions
13. Expressions: Internet
14. Translations: Modern
15. Translations: Ancient
16. Derivations
17. Rhymes
18. Anagrams
19. Orthography
20. Bibliography


  

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vertaling, transferim, transmetim, ‏ترجمة من لغة أجنبية للغة الأم, ‏ترجمة, ‏إفتتان, транслация, огъване, превод, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, превеждане, 翻译, překlad, oversættelse, translatie, taajuusmuutos, translaatio, traduction, oersetting, Übersetzung, μετάφραση, תור'מ ות, תר'ום, "עתק", "עתק, fordítás, traduzione, 翻訳 , へい"ういどう, やくしょ, やくしゅつ, "うどく, ほ"やく, トランスレーション , やくじゅつ, ほ"やくしょ, 번역, tradukshon, tradução, translaţie, tãlmãcire, traducere, сдвиг, трансляция, перемещение, перевод, tumačenje, traducción, översättning, tercüme, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщення, sự dịch, sự biến th nh sự giải thích, trosiad, for translation;
Albaans, Albanies, Albaniese taal, shqip, ‏الألبانية, ‏الألباني, албанец, албански език, албански, Albanyano, 阿"巴尼亚语, 阿爾巴尼亞人 , albánský, Albanees, albanskt, albanialainen, Albanais, Albaneesk, albaner, αλβανικόσ, Αλβανός, αλβανόσ, arbnisht, arbërisht, albán, albanskur, albanska, AlbÚinis, albanese, 알"니아, Albaneagh, albanês, arnãut, albanez, arnãuţesc, албанский, Alapania, albanski, albanac, albanés, alban, Arnavut, албанський, албанка, албанець, for Albanian;
Arabies, arabishte, ‏العربية, ‏عربي, ‏اللغة العربية, арабски език, арабски, 阿拉伯 , arabský, arabština, arábiskt, arabialainen, arabe, Arabysk, arabisch, αραβικόσ, ערבית, ערבי, arab, arabo, 아라비아, Arabish, arabir, arabic, арабский, Arapi, arapski, árabe, arabisk, าษาหรืออักขระอาหรับ, เกี่ยวกับอาระเบีย, arapça, arap, araplara özgü, арабська мова, арабський, tiếng A-rập, thuộc A-rập, for Arabic;
Bulgaars, Bulgaar, bulgr, ‏البلغارية, ‏بلغاري, Búlgaru, български, български език, българин, Bulgaryan, 保 利亚, bulharský, bulgarer, bulgarskt, bulgarialainen, Bulgaarsk, bulgare, 'ούλγαρος, bullgar, bolgár, bulgaro, 불가리아, Bulgeyragh, Bulgeyrish, Bułgar, болгарский, болгарин, bugarski jezik, bugarski, bugarka, bugarin, búlgaro, bulgar, bulgaristan ile ilgili, болгарський, người Bun-ga-ri tiếng Bun-ga-ri, for Bulgarian;
Sjinees, Chinees, kinez, ‏الصينية, ‏لغة الصين, ‏صيني, ‏الصيني أحد أبناء الصين, Chinu, китайски, Ininsik, 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , èínský, èínština, èíòan, kineser, kinesiskt, kinverskur, kiinalainen, Chinois, Sineesk, Chinesisch, Κινέζος, κινέζικα, κινέζικοσ, κινέζοσ, σινικόσ, kínai, Kínverji, Sínis, cinese, チフス菌 , チャイニーズ , 중국, Cina, Sheenish, Sheenagh, Hainamana, chines, Chińczyk, chinês, chinés, chinezesc, chinezeşte, chinezã, chinez, китайский, китаец, Saina, kineski jezik, kineski, chino, snesi, sneysi, kinesisk, çinli, çince, çin ile ilgili, çin, китаянка, китайська мова, китайський, кита"ць, for Chinese;
Tsjeggies, Tsjeg, çek, ‏تشيكي, ‏اللغة التشيكوسلوفاكية, ‏التشيكي أحد أبناء تشيكوسلوفاكيا, Checu, чешки, Sekoslovakyano, 捷克語 , 捷克语, 捷克 , èesky, èeské, èech, èeština, èeský, èeška, tjekker, tjekke, Tsjech, Tsjechisch, tjekkiskt, t?ekkiläinen, tchèque, Tsjechysk, Tscheche, tschechisch, Tschechin, Τσέχος, cseh, ceco, 체", Sheckagh, Sheckish, Czech, chèc, ceh, чешский, češki jezik, čeh, češki, checo, tjeck, Çek, çekoslovakyalı kimse, çekoslovakyalı, çek dili, чех, чеська мова, чеський, чешка, người Séc tiếng Séc, for Czech;
Deens, danisht, danishte, ‏لغة الدانمركية, ‏نوع كعك, ‏دانماركي, датски език, датски, Daniko, 丹麦语, dánský, dánština, danskur, danskt, tanskalainen, danois, Deensk, dänisch, δανικόσ, δανόσ, עו'ת שמרים, " י, dán, danska, Danmhairgis, danese, 덴마크, Danvargish, Danvargagh, danes, dinamarquês, danez, датский, danski, danski jezik, danés, dansk, danimarkalı, danimarka dili, датський, датська мова, tiếng Đan-mạch, for Danish;
Nederlands, Hollands, holandez, ‏هولندي, ‏اللغة الهولندية, холандски, немски език, холандски език, холандците, немски, Olandes, 菏蘭語 , 荷兰语, holandský, nizozemský, hollandsk, hollendskt, hollantilainen, néerlandais, Nederlânsk, holländisch, ολλανδικόσ, ολλανδόσ, holandisht, "ול "י, holland, hollenskur, Ollainnis, olandese, 네덜란", Belanda, Ollanish, Germaanish, Tatimana, nederlandsk, ulandes, hulandes, holandês, neerlandés, olandez, nemţesc, limba olandezã, german, голландский, holanđanin, u škripcu, holandski, holandés, bakratongo, holländsk, ชาวเนเธอร์แลน"์, เกี่ยวกับเนเธอร์แลน"์, รรยา, alman, eş, flemenkçe, holandaca, hollanda, karı, hollandalı, hollandalılara özgü olan, Hollandali, hollanda'ya ait, голландська мова, голландський, ngôn ngữ khó hiểu, "b xã", for Dutch;
Farsi, Parsi, persiskt, Fasi, for Farsi;
Fins, finlandez, finlandishte, finlandisht, ‏اللغة الفنلندية, ‏فنلندية, ‏فنلندي, фински език, фински, Pinlandino, 芬蘭語 , 芬兰语, finský, finskt, suomi, suomalainen, finnois, Finlandaise, finlandais, finnisch, φινλανδικόσ, פי י, finn, finnskur, finnska, finlandese, 핀란", Fynlannish, Fynlannagh, finlandês, finês, finlandezã, финский, Finisi, finski jezik, finski, finlandés, finés, finsk, fince, finlandiya'ya özgü, фінська мова, фінський, tiếng Phần-lan, for Finnish;
Franse taal, Frans, franceze, francez, frëngjisht, frëng, frëngjishte, ‏فرنسي, ‏اللغة الفرنسية, ‏الشعب الفرنسي, gall, френски език, френски, Pranses, 法國 , 法文 , 法語 , 法语, francouzština, francouzský, franskur, franskt, ranskalainen, français, Frânsk, französisch, γάλλοσ, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, צרפתי, צרפתית, francia, Fraincis, francese, フレコン化 , フランス" , 仏文 , 仏 , ふつぶ", フレンチ , フランセ , ふつ, "랑스, Perancis, Ny Frangee, Mooinjey ny Frank, frances, franses, francês, francezii, francezã, franţuzesc, franţuzeşte, французский, Falani, francuski jezik, francuski, francuzi, francés, sí-Fulentji, fransk, franska, fransızca, Fransiz, fransızca ile ilgili, fransız, fransa ile ilgili, французька мова, французький, Ffrengig, isiFulentshi, for French;
Duits, Duitser, Duitse taal, Germaan, gjerman, ‏ضرب من الرقص, ‏جرماني, ‏المانية, ‏الماني, ‏اللغة الألمانية, роден, германски, немски език, немски, немец, готически, германец, 德語 , 德语, 德文 , 德國 , nìmecký, nìmec, tysker, Duitse, týskur, týskt, týskari, saksalainen, Allemand, Dútsk, Deutsche, Deutsch, "ερμανός, gjermanisht, 'רמ י, 'רמ ית, német, þjóðverji, þýskur, GearmÚnach, GearmÚinis, tedesco, ジプシー音楽 , ジャーマン , 독일, todesch, Germaanagh, Garmane, Germaanish, Carmane, aleman, Niemiec, niemiecki, alemão, alemand, neamţ, немецкий, Siamani, germanski, ale