🙈 Avoiding people 💊 Stopping drugs 🏆 Leaving a contest 🏦 Taking out money 🎓 Leaving school ✋ Taking back approval

withdrawer

9.3

A person who stops taking addictive drugs and feels sick

noun
/wɪðˈdrɔːər/

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: persona en abstinencia

The withdrawer struggled with cravings during treatment.

Examples

The clinic has a specialized program to help each withdrawer cope with symptoms safely.
As a withdrawer, he found group therapy sessions to be particularly supportive.
After years of addiction, she became a withdrawer determined to reclaim her life.
Many withdrawers attend support groups for help.
After years of addiction, she became a withdrawer determined to reclaim her life.
As a withdrawer, he found group therapy sessions to be particularly supportive.
The clinic has a specialized program to help each withdrawer cope with symptoms safely.

Surface Forms

withdrawer singular

withdrawers plural

Morphology

withdrawer = withdraw (semi-transparent) = withdraw + er

Formally 'withdraw' + '-er' is visible, but in the clinical sense 'withdrawer' refers to someone experiencing withdrawal (a state) rather than simply an agent who withdraws, so inference is somewhat uncertain for learners.

Etymology

Withdrawer comes from withdraw ('pull back') plus the ending -er ('person who'), so it means someone who pulls back. A drug withdrawer is a person pulling back from drugs and having 'withdrawal' symptoms as their body adjusts.