Meaning of elvonás | Babel Free

Definitions

1. verbal noun of elvon, the act of any of the following:
   countable, uncountable
2. cut, decrease, reduction, curtailment, deprivation, removal (whether partial or total)
   countable, uncountable
3. withdrawal (a type of metabolic shock the body undergoes when a substance, usually a toxin such as heroin, to which a patient is dependent is withheld. Sometimes used with the substance as modifier)
   countable, uncountable
4. abstraction (the act of focusing on one characteristic of an object rather than the object as a whole group of characteristics; the act of separating said qualities from the object or ideas)
   countable, rare, uncountable
5. distraction, diversion (of attention)
   countable, uncountable
6. back-formation (the process of creating a new word by removing actual or supposed affixes or, less frequently, by shortening a compound word to one of its elements)
   countable, uncountable
7. the amount of the cut, decrease, or curtailment (the result of the above act)
   countable, uncountable
8. back-formation (the result of the above act, the word thereby coined)
   countable, uncountable

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