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Withdrawal vs Backdown - What's the difference?

withdrawal | backdown |

As nouns the difference between withdrawal and backdown

is that withdrawal is receiving from someone's care what one has earlier entrusted to them. Usually refers to money while backdown is an act of backing down; a retraction or withdrawal.

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

    backdown

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of backing down; a retraction or withdrawal.