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withdrawal

/wɪðˈdrɔːəl/

B1CEFR level
20/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister

Medicine noun

A retreat from social contact, or the physical symptoms that follow stopping a substance.

Staff noted increasing social withdrawal, as she stayed in her room and declined visits.

Topic: Mental health nursing in Medical English

Law noun

The revocation of an offer before it has been accepted.

Withdrawal of the offer was effective only once it had actually reached the offeree.

Similar: revocation

Topic: Contracts in Legal English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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