From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pull back
v 1: pull back or move away or backward; "The enemy withdrew";
"The limo pulled away from the curb" [syn: {withdraw},
{retreat}, {pull away}, {draw back}, {recede}, {pull back},
{retire}, {move back}] [ant: {advance}, {go on}, {march
on}, {move on}, {pass on}, {progress}]
2: use a surgical instrument to hold open (the edges of a wound
or an organ) [syn: {retract}, {pull back}, {draw back}]
3: move to a rearward position; pull towards the back; "Pull
back your arms!"
4: stretch back a bowstring (on an archer's bow); "The archers
were drawing their bows" [syn: {pull back}, {draw}]
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}, {pull back}, {back
out}, {back away}, {crawfish}, {crawfish out}, {pull in one's
horns}, {withdraw}]
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