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DRUG WITHDRAWAL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does drug withdrawal mean?
• DRUG WITHDRAWAL (noun)
The noun DRUG WITHDRAWAL has 1 sense:
1. the termination of drug taking
Familiarity information: DRUG WITHDRAWAL used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The termination of drug taking
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
drug withdrawal; withdrawal
Hypernyms ("drug withdrawal" is a kind of...):
conclusion; ending; termination (the act of ending something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "drug withdrawal"):
cold turkey (complete and abrupt withdrawal of all addictive drugs or anything else on which you have become dependent)
Context examples
Drug withdrawal symptoms in a fetus following maternal discontinuation or reduction of use of one or more addictive substance(s) that have caused fetal physiological dependence.
(In utero Drug Withdrawal, NCI Thesaurus)
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