Pull back

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VERB

withdraw, retreat, pull away, draw back, recede

pull back or move away or backward

retract, draw back

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

move to a rearward position

draw

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

retreat, back out, back away, crawfish, crawfish out

make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity

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