elvonás
“elvonás” is a Hungarian word. Its 8 meanings in English:
- verbal noun of elvon, the act of any of the following:
- cut, decrease, reduction, curtailment, deprivation, removal (whether partial or total)
- 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)
- 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)
- distraction, diversion (of attention)
- 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)
- the amount of the cut, decrease, or curtailment (the result of the above act)
- back-formation (the result of the above act, the word thereby coined)
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