elvonás

Noun

 * , the act of any of the following:
 * 1) cut, decrease, reduction, curtailment, deprivation, removal whether partial or total
 * 2) 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
 * 3)  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
 * 4)  distraction, diversion of attention
 * 5)  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
 * 6) the amount of the cut, decrease, or curtailment the result of the above act
 * 7)  back-formation the result of the above act, the word thereby coined
 * 1)  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
 * 2) the amount of the cut, decrease, or curtailment the result of the above act
 * 3)  back-formation the result of the above act, the word thereby coined
 * 1)  back-formation the result of the above act, the word thereby coined