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Withdrawal vs Repeal - What's the difference?

withdrawal | repeal |

As nouns the difference between withdrawal and repeal

is that withdrawal is receiving from someone's care what one has earlier entrusted to them usually refers to money while repeal is an act or instance of repealing.

As a verb repeal is

to cancel, invalidate, annul.

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

    repeal

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cancel, invalidate, annul.
  • to repeal a law
  • To recall; to summon (a person) again.
  • * Shakespeare
  • The banished Bolingbroke repeals himself, / And with uplifted arms is safe arrived.
  • To suppress; to repel.
  • * Milton
  • Whence Adam soon repealed / The doubts that in his heart arose.

    Synonyms

    * annul, cancel, invalidate, revoke, veto

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act or instance of repealing.
  • Anagrams

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