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say it: with-DRAW-uhl
withdrawal is a noun meaning "a retraction of a previously held position". It carries 9 recorded senses.
a retraction of a previously held position
the act of taking out money or other capital
the act of withdrawing
“the withdrawal of French troops from Vietnam”
avoiding emotional involvement
the act of withdrawing blood, tumors, etc.
“the nurse was expert at the withdrawal of blood”
the act of ceasing to participate in an activity
a method of birth control in which coitus is initiated but the penis is deliberately withdrawn before ejaculation
formal separation from an alliance or federation
the termination of drug taking
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for withdrawal come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.