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Withdrawal vs Climbdown - What's the difference?

withdrawal | climbdown |

As nouns the difference between withdrawal and climbdown

is that withdrawal is receiving from someone's care what one has earlier entrusted to them usually refers to money while climbdown is a retreat or withdrawal from an earlier position or opinion; a backdown.

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

    climbdown

    English

    Alternative forms

    * climb-down

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A retreat or withdrawal from an earlier position or opinion; a backdown.
    • Thursday's court appearance as he waited for his case to be heard was a humiliating climbdown for the flamboyant Texan, who sports the clipped mustache and Saville Row style of English aristocracy. — Texas cricket mogul pleads not guilty to fraud by Kate Murphy, The Age, June 26 2009

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