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Discard vs Withdrawal - What's the difference?

discard | withdrawal |

As nouns the difference between discard and withdrawal

is that discard is anything discarded while withdrawal is receiving from someone's care what one has earlier entrusted to them usually refers to money.

As a verb discard

is to throw away, to reject.

discard

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • to throw away, to reject.
  • * I. Taylor
    • A man discards the follies of boyhood.
  • (card games) To make a discard; to throw out a card.
  • To dismiss from employment, confidence, or favour; to discharge.
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • They blame the favourites, and think it nothing extraordinary that the queen should resolve to discard them.

    Synonyms

    * cast away * dismiss * dispose * eliminate * get rid of * throw away * See also

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Anything discarded.
  • A discarded playing card in a card game.

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    Anagrams

    * English heteronyms

    withdrawal

    English

    (wikipedia withdrawal)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Receiving from someone's care what one has earlier entrusted to them. Usually refers to money.
  • A method of birth control which consists of removing the penis from the vagina before ejaculation.
  • 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
    • heroin withdrawal
    nicotine withdrawal
  • An act of withdrawing.

    • Antonyms

    * (sense, receiving from someone's care) deposit