withdrawal

n

1. departure, leaving, going away, setting out or off; takeoff, embarkation, sailing; exit, leave, parting, separation; leave-taking, farewell, adieu, good-by, conge.

2. flight, escape, running off or away, Sl. splitting; pullout, retreat, retirement, removal, evacuation, withdrawment, countermarch.

3. recession, retrocession; reversion, regression, retrogression, retrogradation; secession, separation, severance.

4. resignation, abandonment, forsaking, abdication, relinquishment; defection, apostasy; yielding, surrender, bowing out, dropping out.

5. privacy, seclusion, sequestration; solitude, isolation, concealment, obscurity, reclusion, exile, an-choritism, monasticism; All Inf. copping out, tuning out, turning off.

6. retraction, retractation, disavowal, recantation, unsaying, taking back; renunciation, (usu. under oath) abjuration.

7. revocation, annulment, disannulment, nullification, voidance, cancellation; rescission, repeal, dissolution, abolishment, abrogation.

8.Drug Culture. deprivation, absence, lack, want, need; delirium tremens, Inf. the d.t.'s, trembling, tremors, the shakes; perspiration, sweating, cold sweat, the sweats; depression, dejection, despondency.