pull back - Similar and Opposite Words

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Verb

make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity

Synonyms

• back away
• back out
• crawfish
• crawfish out
• pull back
• pull in one's horns
• retreat
• withdraw

Related

• draw back
• move back
• pull away
• pull back
• recede
• retire
• retreat
• withdraw

Verb

stretch back a bowstring (on an archer's bow)

Synonyms

• draw
• pull back

More generic

• stretch

Related

• pull back

Verb

move to a rearward position; pull towards the back

Synonyms

• pull back

More generic

• draw
• pull

Related

• draw
• pull back

Verb

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

Synonyms

• draw back
• pull back
• retract

More generic

• pull

Verb

pull back or move away or backward

Synonyms

• draw back
• move back
• pull away
• pull back
• recede
• retire
• retreat
• withdraw

More generic

• go
• locomote
• move
• travel

More specific

• back down
• back off
• back up
• fall back
• retreat
• retrograde

Related

• back away
• back out
• crawfish
• crawfish out
• pull back
• pull in one's horns
• retreat
• withdraw

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