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English verb: pull back | |||
| 1. | pull back (motion) pull back or move away or backward | ||
| Samples | The enemy withdrew. The limo pulled away from the curb. | ||
| Synonyms | draw back, move back, pull away, recede, retire, retreat, withdraw | ||
| Pattern of use | Something ----s. Somebody ----s. Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s PP | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | go, locomote, move, travel | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | back down, back off, back up, fall back, retreat, retrograde | ||
| Verb group | back away, back out, crawfish, crawfish out, pull back, pull in one's horns, retreat, withdraw | ||
| Antonyms | advance, march on, move on, progress, go on, pass on | ||
| 2. | pull back (contact) use a surgical instrument to hold open (the edges of a wound or an organ) | ||
| Synonyms | draw back, retract | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | pull | ||
| 3. | pull back (contact) move to a rearward position; pull towards the back | ||
| Samples | Pull back your arms!. | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s somebody. Something ----s somebody. Something ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | draw, force, pull | ||
| Verb group | draw, pull back | ||
| 4. | pull back (contact) stretch back a bowstring (on an archer's bow) | ||
| Samples | The archers were drawing their bows. | ||
| Synonyms | draw | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | stretch | ||
| Verb group | pull back | ||
| 5. | pull back (communication) make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity | ||
| Samples | 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. | ||
| Synonyms | back away, back out, crawfish, crawfish out, pull in one's horns, retreat, withdraw | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s | ||
| Verb group | draw back, move back, pull away, pull back, recede, retire, retreat, withdraw | ||
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