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withdrawal

noun
/wɪðˈdɹɔː(ə)l/UK/wɪðˈdɹɔ(ə)l/US/wɪðˈdɹɑ(ə)l/

Etymology

From withdraw + -al.

  1. inherited from *dʰregʰ-✻ — “to drag, pull; to run”
  2. inherited from withdrawen
  3. suffixed as withdrawal — “withdraw + al”

Definitions

  1. Receiving from someone's care what one has earlier entrusted to them. Usually refers to…

    Receiving from someone's care what one has earlier entrusted to them. Usually refers to money.

    • In view of the second aspect of its control function, the Federal Reserve Board prohibits, with specified limited exceptions, the wisthdrawal of securities from general accounts where such withdrawals would undermargin such accounts.

  2. A method of birth control which consists of removing the penis from the vagina before…

    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 (such as a drug) on which a…

    A type of metabolic shock the body undergoes when a substance (such as a drug) on which a patient is dependent is withheld.

    • heroin withdrawal
    • nicotine withdrawal
    • caffeine withdrawal
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. An act of withdrawing or a state of being withdrawn.

      • On withdrawal [from service], it was restored to its Caledonian blue livery, and is now preserved at St. Rollox.
      • But in terms of the result, the performance and the management of the players' workloads, the match could not have gone much better for the hosts, save for Wes Burns' first-half withdrawal with what looked like a dislocated shoulder.

    2. The sum of money taken from a bank account.

The neighborhood

  • antonymdepositantonym(s) of “receiving from someone's care”

Derived

alcohol withdrawal syndrome, benzodiazepine withdrawal syndrome, drug withdrawal, pervasive arousal withdrawal syndrome, phantom withdrawal, traumatic withdrawal syndrome, withdrawal symptom

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at withdrawal. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at withdrawal. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at withdrawal

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA