withdrawal

withdrawal

English

Etymology

From withdraw +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wɪðˈdɹɔːəl/

Noun

withdrawal (countable and uncountable, plural withdrawals)

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

   heroin withdrawal

   nicotine withdrawal

4. An act of withdrawing.

Antonyms

• (receiving from someone's care): deposit

Translations

receiving from someone's care what one has earlier entrusted to them

Finnish: nosto (fi) (money from a bank), otto (fi) (money from a bank), poisvetäminen French: retrait (fr) m German: Entnahme (de) f Greek: ανάληψη (el) f (análipsi), ανάκληση (el) f (anáklisi) Hebrew: משיכה‎ f (meshikhá) Japanese: 引き出し (ja) (hikidashi), 出金 (shukkin)

Latvian: izņemšana f Portuguese: saque (pt) m Scottish Gaelic: (money) togail f Spanish: retirada (es) f Swedish: uttag (sv) c (money from a bank) Telugu: ఉపసంహరణ (te) (upasaṃharaṇa)

method of birth control

Finnish: keskeytetty yhdyntä French: retrait (fr) m, coït interrompu (fr) m Greek: τράβηγμα (el) n (trávigma) (colloquial), διακοπτόμενη συνουσία (el) f (diakoptómeni synousía) Japanese: 膣外射精 (chitsugai-shasei)

Latvian: pārtrauktais dzimumakts m Portuguese: coito interrompido (pt) Spanish: coitus interruptus (es)

type of metabolic shock

Chinese: Mandarin: 戒斷症狀, 戒断症状 (jièduàn zhèngzhuàng) Finnish: vierotusoireet pl French: sevrage (fr) m (process), manque (fr) m (status) German: Entzug (de) m Greek: στερητικό σύνδρομο (el) n (steritikó sýndromo) Italian: astinenza (it) f

Japanese: 禁断症状 (ja) (きんだんしょうじょう, kindan-shōjō) Latvian: abstinences simptomi m pl, lomkas f pl (colloquial) Portuguese: síndrome de abstinência f Russian: ломка (ru) f (lomka) Spanish: síndrome de abstinencia m Swedish: abstinens (sv) c

act of withdrawing

Arabic: اِنْسِحَاب‎ m (insiḥāb) Armenian: please add this translation if you can Chinese: Mandarin: 提款 (zh) (tíkuǎn) (from a bank), 撤退 (zh) (chètuì) (retreat) Esperanto: please add this translation if you can Finnish: vetäytyminen (fi), vieroitus (fi) French: retrait (fr) m Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: Entzug (de) m Greek: απόσυρση (el) f (apósyrsi), αποχώρηση (el) f (apochórisi) Irish: aistarraingt f Japanese: 引き出し (ja) (ひきだし, hikidashi) Khmer: please add this translation if you can Latin: recessus m

Latvian: izvešana f (troops), izņemšana f Maori: unuhanga, taui (as in retreat or flight) Mongolian: please add this translation if you can Norwegian: Bokmål: tilbaketrekking m or f, tilbaketrekning m or f Nynorsk: tilbaketrekking f Portuguese: retirada (pt) f, saque (pt) m Russian: вы́вод (ru) m (vývod) (of troops), сня́тие (ru) m (snjátije) (from a bank) Spanish: retirada (es) f Swedish: utträde n Telugu: ఉపసంహరణ (te) (upasaṃharaṇa) Thai: please add this translation if you can Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

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Interlingua: (please verify) retiramento

Italian: (please verify) ritiro ritrattazione