The word withdrawal comes from withdraw, which, according to Wiktionary, means,

1. To pull back, aside or away
2. To stop talking to, or interacting with, other people and start thinking thoughts that are not related to what is happening around.
3. To take back (a comment, etc).

… and a few other things.

It comes from the Middle English word withdrawen (to draw away, to draw back), from with (away, back), and drawen (to draw, drag, pull), which comes from the Old English draġan (to draw, pull, attract), from the Proto-Germanic *draganą (to draw, pull, carry), from the Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ- (to pull, draw, drag). The word drag comes from the same root source].

The term withdrawing room, a room in a house where visitors may be entertained, dates from the 17th century, and was later abbreviated to drawing room. In some households there was a tradition until about the mid-20th century, that after a formal dinner, the ladies would withdraw to the drawing room, while the gentlemen remained in the dinning room to talk about things like politics, perhaps while smoking and drinking port or other beverages. After a respectable interval the gentlemen would join the ladies in the drawing room [source].

The modern equivalent of the drawing room might be called the living room in some houses, or perhaps the lounge. We called it the sitting room in the house I grew up in. What do you call it?

With as a prefix can mean: against or in opposition to, as in withstand. In withhold and withdraw it means back, back around, in reverse” or in return. The are other words with the with prefix, such as withbear (to carry/bear away, gather, endure), withgo (to go against, give up), withgang (to indulge), and withjoin (to rebuke, withold, withstand), but they are obsolete and archaic [source].

A palindrome is a word or sentence that reads the same in both directions. Examples include Malayalam, madam, and flee to me, remote elf.

Have you ever wondered what the opposite of a palindrome is?

Well a word that becomes a different word when spelled backwards is known as a reverse pair, or an emordnilap, which is palindrome spelled backwards.

Apparently one of the first sightings of emordnilaps in the wild occurred back in February 2014 on the blog Wordsmythologic in a post that defined emordnilap as “any word that, when spelled backwards, produces another word”.

According to Wikipedia, another word for an emordnilap, is a semordnilap, or palindromes spelled backwards. It was probably first used by recreational linguist Dmitri Borgmann, and appeared in C. C. Bombaugh’s Oddities and Curiosities of Words and Literature (1961). Other names include anadrome, half-palindrome, heteropalindrome, reversgram, reversible anagram, semi-palindrome, word reversal and levidrome.

Some examples of emordnilaps / semordnilaps include: avid diva, drab bard, snub buns, stressed desserts, mined denim and regal lager. Actually, when written like this, these are palindromes, but I’m sure you get the idea.

Sources: Snopes, signtwordsgame