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pull back

English

  1. 🔊 stretch back a bowstring (on an archer's bow)
    “The archers were drawing their bows”
  2. 🔊 move to a rearward position
    “Pull back your arms!”
  3. 🔊 make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity
    “We'll have to crawfish out from meeting with him”
  4. 🔊 use a surgical instrument to hold open (the edges of a wound or an organ)
  5. 🔊 pull back or move away or backward
    “The enemy withdrew”

Similar words

retreat back out back away crawfish crawfish out pull in one's horns withdraw draw retract draw back withdraw retreat pull away draw back recede retire move back about the bush abrupt alienate avoid back down back out backslide