elvonás

== Hungarian == === Etymology === elvon (“to take away, remove”) +‎ -ás (noun-forming suffix) === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ˈɛlvonaːʃ] Hyphenation: el‧vo‧nás === Noun === elvonás (countable and uncountable, plural elvonások) verbal noun of elvon, the act of any of the following: cut, decrease, reduction, curtailment, deprivation, removal (whether partial or total) Hyponyms: (reduction, decrease) csökkentés, (deprivation, stopping, cutting off) megvonás, (dispossession, deprivation) megfosztás 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) Synonym: megvonás (rare) 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) Synonyms: absztrakció, elvonatkoztatás (in compounds and expressions) distraction, diversion (of attention) (linguistics) 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) Synonym: szóelvonás the amount of the cut, decrease, or curtailment (the result of the above act) (linguistics) back-formation (the result of the above act, the word thereby coined) ==== Declension ==== === Further reading === elvonás in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN. elvonás in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).