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Withdrawal vs Separation - What's the difference?

withdrawal | separation |

As nouns the difference between withdrawal and separation

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

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

    separation

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of disuniting two or more things, or the condition of being separated.
  • The place at which a division occurs.
  • An interval, gap or space that separates things.
  • (legal) An agreement terminating a relationship between husband and wife, but short of a divorce.
  • (military) Departure from active duty, while not necessarily leaving the service entirely.
  • Antonyms

    * (act of disuniting two or more things) annexation, combination, unification

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