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Definition of Pull back
1. Verb. Pull back or move away or backward. "The limo pulled away from the curb"
Related verbs: Back Away, Back Out, Crawfish, Crawfish Out, Pull In One's Horns, Retreat, Withdraw
Generic synonyms: Go, Locomote, Move, Travel
Specialized synonyms: Fall Back, Retreat, Retrograde, Back Down, Back Off, Back Up
Derivative terms: Pullback, Receding, Withdrawal
Antonyms: Advance
2. Verb. Use a surgical instrument to hold open (the edges of a wound or an organ).
3. Verb. Move to a rearward position; pull towards the back. "Pull back your arms!"
4. Verb. Stretch back a bowstring (on an archer's bow). "The archers were drawing their bows"
5. Verb. Make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity. "The aggressive investment company pulled in its horns"
Related verbs: Draw Back, Move Back, Pull Away, Recede, Retire, Retreat, Withdraw
Derivative terms: Withdrawal, Withdrawer, Withdrawer
Definition of Pull back
1. Verb. (&lit) To pull in a backwards direction ¹
2. Verb. To retreat ¹
3. Verb. To retract ¹
4. Verb. (transitive) to pull in order to reveal something underneath or behind. ¹
5. Verb. (transitive sports) To pass (the ball) into a position further from the attacking goal line. ¹
6. Verb. (transitive sports) To score when the team is losing. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pull Back
Literary usage of Pull back
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bridge Engineering by John Alexander Low Waddell (1916)
"Pull-back draws. 7. Trunnion bascule-bridges. 8. Rolling bascule-bridges. 9.
Jack-knife or folding bridges. 10. Vertical lift-bridges. 11. ..."
2. The British Journal of Photography by Liverpool Photographic Society (1874)
"By this means we would get rid of another pull back, viz., ... Another pull back
is to make a small start requires very little money, so that, when a father ..."
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