Definition of Pull-back

Verb

  • make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity
    "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"
    - back out - back away - crawfish out - pull in one's horns
  • stretch back a bowstring (on an archer's bow)
    "The archers were drawing their bows"
  • move to a rearward position
    pull towards the back
    "Pull back your arms!"
  • use a surgical instrument to hold open (the edges of a wound or an organ)
    - draw back
  • pull back or move away or backward
    "The enemy withdrew"
    "The limo pulled away from the curb"
    - pull away - draw back - move back
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Word games points for the Pull_back

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Unscramble pull_back

72 unscramble word found using the letters pull_back.
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