elvonás

elvon (“to take away, remove”) +‎ -ás (noun-forming suffix)

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛlvonaːʃ]
• Hyphenation: el‧vo‧nás

elvonás (countable and uncountable, plural elvonások)

1. verbal noun of elvon, the act of any of the following:
   1. cut, decrease, reduction, curtailment, deprivation, removal (whether partial or total)

      Hyponyms: (reduction, decrease) csökkentés, (deprivation, stopping, cutting off) megvonás, (dispossession, deprivation) megfosztás

   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)

      Synonym: megvonás

   3. (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

   4. (in compounds and expressions) distraction, diversion (of attention)
   5. (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

2. the amount of the cut, decrease, or curtailment (the result of the above act)
3. (linguistics) back-formation (the result of the above act, the word thereby coined)

• elvonás in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• elvonás in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2024)