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Pull back

verb

Pull back or move away or backward. Synonyms: draw back, move back, pull away, recede, retire, retreat, withdraw. "The limo pulled away from the curb"

Use a surgical instrument to hold open (the edges of a wound or an organ). Synonyms: draw back, retract.

Move to a rearward position; pull towards the back.

Stretch back a bowstring (on an archer's bow). Synonym: draw.

Make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity. Synonyms: back away, back out, crawfish, crawfish out, pull in one's horns, retreat, withdraw. "He backed out of his earlier promise" , "The aggressive investment company pulled in its horns"

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"Pull back" Quotes from Famous Books

... dretful, but bein' experienced in marriage, I could see that it wasn't that that was makin' James drop the whip, an' pull back on the lines when he wanted the horses to go faster, an' not hear things I was a-sayin' to him. Finally, I says, very distinct: 'James, dear, how many children did you say ...

— At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern • Myrtle Reed

... sake, and climb that cursed wood, and pull back the fuse, pull it back from the powder. Oh, Polly! and then ...

— Springhaven - A Tale of the Great War • R. D. Blackmore

... "Pull back!" directed Blake, but Joe needed no urging. A slight difference—inches only—meant safety or death—terrible injury at best, for the ravine was a hundred feet deep. But those few inches were ...

— The Moving Picture Boys at Panama - Stirring Adventures Along the Great Canal • Victor Appleton

... assigned your place in the procession by the hostess, who comes last with the man guest of honor. Each man offers his right arm to his fair partner. In the dining room, cards are placed at each cover with the names of the guests inscribed thereon. Even should there be a retinue of servants, pull back the chair of your partner and assist her to seat herself. In some old-fashioned houses grace is said, and it is always the rule when a clergyman is one of the guests. This blessing is asked after the company ...

— The Complete Bachelor - Manners for Men • Walter Germain

... into it. Nerve? Say, I'm telling you there wasn't any of it left out of her when she was born!" He was silent for a moment, and then added: "When we came to that dripping, slimy rock with the big yellow skull layin' there like a poison toadstool, she didn't screech and pull back, but just gave a little gasp and stared at it hard, and her fingers pinched my arm until it hurt. It was a devilish-looking thing, yellow as a sick orange and soppy with the drip of the wet moss over it. I wanted to blow it to pieces, and ...

— The Alaskan • James Oliver Curwood

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