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# withdrawal

«withdrawal» in Mova's school dictionary: **Taking money out of a bank account** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a withdrawal, withdrawals)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Taking money out of a bank account. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/withdrawal/#m1)

2) Taking something away or back: the withdrawal of an offer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/withdrawal/#m2)

3) Moving soldiers or people back or away from a place. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/withdrawal/#m3)

4) Leaving or stopping taking part: his withdrawal from the race. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/withdrawal/#m4)

5) The ill feeling a person has when they stop taking a drug their body is used to. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/withdrawal/#m5)

6) Becoming quiet and not wanting to be with people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/withdrawal/#m6)

### sense in the lessons

In maths money problems, a withdrawal is subtracted from a bank balance and a deposit is added. In history and news, an army's withdrawal is moving out. In sport, a withdrawal means a player stopped competing. In health, withdrawal symptoms appear when people stop drugs, smoking or caffeine. Phrases: make a withdrawal, cash withdrawal, withdrawal symptoms.

### examples

- She made a withdrawal of £50 from the cash machine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/withdrawal/#x1)
- After a withdrawal of $30, the balance was $70. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/withdrawal/#x2)
- The army began its withdrawal from the city. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/withdrawal/#x3)
- Injury forced his withdrawal from the race. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/withdrawal/#x4)
- The withdrawal of the offer upset everyone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/withdrawal/#x5)
- Headaches can be a withdrawal symptom when you stop drinking coffee. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/withdrawal/#x6)

### note

Verb: withdraw (withdraw, withdrew, withdrawn). In maths, withdrawal = minus; deposit = plus. Spelling: withdrawal ends in -al (no extra w).

### In the corpora

- ["Strategic withdrawal" is the official way to say an army retreated.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/26-war-and-the-military/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «withdrawal» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/withdrawal/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.