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pull back

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Verb
  1. pull back or move away or backward;

    "The enemy withdrew" "The limo pulled away from the curb"

  2. use a surgical instrument to hold open (the edges of a wound or an organ)
  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"

  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"

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