pull back Meaning, Definition & Usage

1. verb pull back or move away or backward
   retire; recede; move back; withdraw; pull away; draw back; retreat.
   
   • The enemy withdrew
   • The limo pulled away from the curb
2. verb use a surgical instrument to hold open (the edges of a wound or an organ)
   retract; draw back.
   
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)
   draw.
   
   • The archers were drawing their bows
5. verb make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity
   back away; back out; crawfish; pull in one's horns; crawfish out; withdraw; retreat.
   
   • 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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