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withdrawal

[-drô′əl]

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The definition of withdrawal is the act of taking something out, or stopping participation in an activity.
1. When you take $10 out of your bank account, this is an example of a withdrawal.
2. When you stop taking cocaine and your body experiences changes as a result of the loss of the drug, this is an example of withdrawal.

withdrawal

noun

the act of withdrawing
the act or process of giving up the use of a narcotic drug to which one has become addicted, typically accompanied by distressing physiological and mental effects ()
coitus interruptus

withdrawal

noun

The act or process of withdrawing, as:
a. A retreat or retirement: the dinner guests' withdrawal to the den.
b. The removal of people from a place, as in the removal of troops from a military position.
c. Detachment, as from social or emotional involvement.
d. A removal of something that has been deposited, as in an account.
a. Discontinuation of the use of an addictive substance.
b. The physiological and mental readjustment that accompanies such discontinuation: is going through withdrawal.
The act or an instance of retracting or revoking: feared the withdrawal of his parents' permission.
Coitus interruptus.

withdrawal

Noun

(plural withdrawals)

Receiving from someone's care what one has earlier entrusted to them. Usually refers to money.
A method of birth control which consists of removing the penis from the vagina before ejaculation.
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
heroin withdrawal
nicotine withdrawal
An act of withdrawing.

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From withdraw +â€Ž -al.

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He must have sensed the cause of her sudden withdrawal, and spoke gently.
I cleaned out our bank accounts and wrapped the withdrawal slips in the same pair of shorts and pinned it to his pillow with a steak knife and took off.
But the prolonged controversy over the bill, and its withdrawal in the autumn owing to the refusal of the government to accept modifications made by the House of Lords in the denominational interest, made his retention of that office impossible, and he was transferred (January 1907) to the post of chief secretary for Ireland, which he subsequently retained when Mr Asquith became prime minister in 1908.
Of Macedon, whose intervention was successful, but after his withdrawal Alexander treated his subjects as cruelly as before.
Koevos, common, and (Los, life), one who shares this life of withdrawal with others in a community (see Asceticism and Monasticism).

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A Justice Department survey reports that 70 percent of those arrested for serious crimes are drug uses, which may mean that "drugs cause crime." A more sophisticated analysis suggests that the high cost of drugs, a result of their prohibition, forces drug users to turn crime to support an unnecessarily expensive habit.Drug prohibition, by giving young people the thrill of breaking the law and giving pushers a strong incentive to find new customers, may actually increase the number of drug users. Moreover, out policy of pressuring friendly governments to wipe out drug cultivation has undermined many of those regimes and provoked resentment against us among their citizens and government officials.We can either escalate the war on drugs, which would have dire implications for civil liberties and the right to privacy, or find a way to gracefully withdraw. Withdrawal should not be viewed as an endorsement of drug use; it would simply be an acknowledgment that the cost of this war- billions of dollars, runaway crime rates and restrictions on our personal freedom — is too high. David Boaz