pull back

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verb

1. pull back or move away or backward (Freq. 1)
- The enemy withdrew
- The limo pulled away from the curb
• Syn:
withdraw, retreat, pull away, draw back, recede,
retire, move back
• Ant:
advance (for: recede)
• Derivationally related forms:
pullback, receding (for: recede), withdrawal (for: withdraw)
• Hypernyms:
travel, go, move, locomote
• Hyponyms:
fall back, retrograde, retreat, back up, back off, back down
• Verb Group:
retreat, back out, back away, crawfish, crawfish out,
pull in one's horns, withdraw
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s PP
2. use a surgical instrument to hold open (the edges of a wound or an organ)
• Syn:
retract, draw back
• Derivationally related forms:
retractor (for: retract)
• Hypernyms:
pull
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
3. move to a rearward position;
pull towards the back
- Pull back your arms!
• Hypernyms:
pull, draw, force
• Verb Group:
draw
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
- Something ----s something
4. stretch back a bowstring (on an archer's bow)
- The archers were drawing their bows
• Syn:
draw
• Hypernyms:
stretch
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
5. make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity
- We'll have to crawfish out from meeting with him
- He backed out of his earlier promise
- The aggressive investment company pulled in its horns
• Syn:
retreat, back out, back away, crawfish, crawfish out,
pull in one's horns, withdraw
• Derivationally related forms:
withdrawer (for: withdraw), withdrawal (for: withdraw)
• Verb Group:
withdraw, retreat, pull away, draw back, recede,
retire, move back
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s