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withdrawal - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | withdrawal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | removal; retraction |
| Synonyms: | alienation, departure, disclaimer, egress, exit, exodus, extraction, recall, repudiation, resignation, retreat, revocation, revulsion, secession, abandonment, abdication, abjuration, disavowal, disengagement, egression, exiting, marooning, palinode, recantation, relinquishment, rescission, retirement |
| Antonyms: | remainder, stay |
| Main Entry: | abolition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | formal act of putting an end to, annulling |
| Synonyms: | abrogation, annulment, cancellation, destruction, dissolution, elimination, end, ending, eradication, extirpation, negation, overthrow, repeal, repudiation, revocation, subversion, suppression, termination, withdrawal, abolishment, annihilation, invalidation, nullification, obliteration, overturning, quashing, rescinding, rescindment, rescission, voiding, wiping out |
| Antonyms: | confirmation, establishment, establishment, institution, promotion, legalization |
| Main Entry: | abrogation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cancellation |
| Synonyms: | annulment, ending, repudiation, retraction, reversal, withdrawal, discontinuation, invalidation, quashing, rescission, voiding |
| Main Entry: | alienation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unfriendliness |
| Synonyms: | breach, coolness, disaffection, division, divorce, estrangement, indifference, rupture, separation, variance, withdrawal, breaking off, diverting, remoteness, setting against, turning away |
| Antonyms: | charm, endearment, friendliness |
| Main Entry: | contraction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | drawing in; shortening |
| Synonyms: | abbreviation, abridgment, compression, condensation, confinement, confining, constriction, curtailment, decrease, diminution, evaporation, lessening, narrowing, omission, omitting, recession, reducing, reduction, shrinkage, shrinking, withdrawal, abbreviating, abridging, condensing, curtailing, cutting down, decreasing, deflating, deflation, diminishing, drawing together, dwindling, elision, evaporating, lopping, receding, shrivelling, tensing, tightening, withdrawing |
| Antonyms: | amplification, dilation, enlargement, expansion, extension, increase, spread, stretch, lengthening |
| Main Entry: | defection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | abandonment |
| Synonyms: | alienation, deficiency, dereliction, desertion, disaffection, disloyalty, divorce, estrangement, failing, failure, faithlessness, lack, parting, rebellion, rejection, repudiation, retreat, revolt, separation, withdrawal, apostasy, backsliding, disownment, forsaking, recreancy, severance, sundering, tergiversation |
| Antonyms: | joining |
| Main Entry: | deprivation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | taking, keeping away; need |
| Synonyms: | denial, destitution, detriment, disadvantage, distress, hardship, loss, privation, removal, seizure, want, withdrawal, withholding, deprival, dispossession, divestiture, divestment, expropriation |
| Antonyms: | endowment, giving, indulgence, offer, offering, presentation, supply, bestowal |
| Main Entry: | desertion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | abandonment |
| Synonyms: | abrogation, avoidance, betrayal, departure, derelict, dereliction, disaffection, divorce, escape, evasion, flight, rejection, renunciation, repudiation, resignation, retreat, secession, treachery, withdrawal, absconding, apostasy, backsliding, castoff, defecting, departing, disavowal, disavowing, elusion, falling away, falseness, forsaking, going back on, leaving, marooning, perfidy, recreancy, relinquishment, retirement, running out on, tergiversation, truancy |
| Antonyms: | aid, assistance, help, staying |
| Main Entry: | disappearance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | vanishing |
| Synonyms: | departure, desertion, disintegration, dissipation, dissolution, eclipse, escape, evanescence, evaporation, exit, exodus, fading, flight, loss, melting, passing, recession, removal, wane, withdrawal, ceasing to exist, decline and fall, dematerialization, disappearing act, dispersal, ebbing, going, receding, retirement, wearing away |
| Antonyms: | appearance, arrival, coming, entrance |
| Main Entry: | ebb |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | regression; decline |
| Synonyms: | abatement, decay, decrease, depreciation, deterioration, diminution, drop, lessening, low tide, recession, retreat, shrinkage, sinking, sweep, wane, waning, withdrawal, backflow, degeneration, dwindling, fading away, flagging, going out, low water, outward flow, petering out, refluence, reflux, retrocession, retroflux, slackening, subsidence, weakening |
| Antonyms: | flow, incline, increase, rise |
| Main Entry: | egress |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | passage out |
| Synonyms: | departure, emanation, emergence, escape, exit, exodus, issue, opening, outlet, vent, way out, withdrawal, doorway, exiting, setting-out |
| Antonyms: | entrance |
| Main Entry: | elimination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | removal |
| Synonyms: | cut, destruction, discard, ejection, eradication, exclusion, expulsion, omission, rejection, riddance, withdrawal, displacement, dropping, extermination, taking away, weeding out |
| Main Entry: | escape |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | breaking away; getaway |
| Synonyms: | avoidance, beat, bolt, break, deliverance, departure, desertion, disappearance, evasion, evasiveness, flight, freedom, leave, liberation, out, outbreak, powder, release, rescue, retreat, slip, spring, withdrawal, AWOL, abdication, breakout, bypassing, circumvention, decampment, dodging, ducking, elopement, elusion, elusiveness, eschewal, extrication, fadeout, hegira, lam, runaround, shunning, sidestepping |
| Antonyms: | capture, maintenance, stay |
| Main Entry: | estrangement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | destruction of affections |
| Synonyms: | alienation, breach, disaffection, division, divorce, hostility, leave, parting, removal, schism, separation, split, withdrawal, withholding, antagonization, break-up, disassociation, disunity, leaving |
| Antonyms: | connection, marriage, union |
| Main Entry: | exodus |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | leaving |
| Synonyms: | departure, egress, emigration, evacuation, exit, flight, journey, migration, retreat, withdrawal, egression, exiting, going out, offgoing, retirement |
| Antonyms: | arrival, entrance |
| Main Entry: | hangover |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | result of heavy drinking |
| Synonyms: | delirium tremens, drunkenness, headache, under the weather*, withdrawal, DTs, aftereffect, big head, morning after, shakes, willies |
| Antonyms: | sobriety |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | isolation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | seclusion |
| Synonyms: | concealment, confinement, desolation, detachment, exile, hiding, privacy, quarantine, retreat, segregation, solitude, withdrawal, aloneness, aloofness, beleaguerment, monkhood, privateness, reclusion, reclusiveness, remoteness, seclusiveness, sequestration |
| Main Entry: | loneliness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | isolation |
| Synonyms: | alienation, desolation, heartache, seclusion, solitude, withdrawal, aloneness, forlornness, friendlessness, lonesomeness, remoteness, solitariness |
| Main Entry: | repeal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cancellation |
| Synonyms: | abolition, abrogation, annulment, revocation, withdrawal, invalidation, nullification, rescinding, rescindment, rescission |
| Antonyms: | approval, enactment, passage, sanction, validation |
| Main Entry: | seclusion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | isolation |
| Synonyms: | blockade, concealment, desolation, detachment, hiding, privacy, quarantine, retreat, separation, shelter, solitude, withdrawal, aloneness, aloofness, beleaguerment, privateness, reclusion, reclusiveness, remoteness, retirement, seclusiveness, separateness, sequestration |
| Antonyms: | open, public |
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