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n. The act or process of withdrawing, as:

n. A retreat or retirement.

n. Retreat of a military force in the face of enemy attack or after a defeat.

n. Detachment, as from social or emotional involvement.

n. A removal from a place or position of something that has been deposited.

n. Discontinuation of the use of an addictive substance.

n. The physiological and mental readjustment that accompanies such discontinuation.

n. The act or an instance of retracting or revoking: feared the withdrawal of his parents' permission.

n. Coitus interruptus.

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

n. A method of birth control which consists of removing the penis from the vagina before ejaculation.

n. 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

n. An act of withdrawing.

n. The act of withdrawing; withdrawment; retreat; retraction.

n. The act of withdrawing or taking back; a recalling.

n. a method of birth control in which coitus is initiated but the penis is deliberately withdrawn before ejaculation

n. the termination of drug taking

n. formal separation from an alliance or federation

n. the act of withdrawing blood, tumors, etc.

n. a retraction of a previously held position

n. the act of ceasing to participate in an activity

n. avoiding emotional involvement

n. the act of withdrawing

n. the act of taking out money or other capital

"Instead, it is a troubled and uncertain withdrawal from the mimetic closure of defensive polemic and sympathetic attachmentfor the sake of something aesthetic."

deposit   

birth prevention    family planning    birth control    removal    remotion    recantation    abjuration    retraction    separation    indifference   

retirement    departure    retreat    recession    abstraction    recall   

withdrawment    retreat    retraction   

surrender    retreat    evacuation    departure    retirement    dissolution    removal    separation    transfer    acquisition