pull back
verb
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- adjective
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
pull back or move away or backward
The enemy withdrew
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- advance antonym
- withdrawal derivation
- pullback derivation
- receding derivation
- crawfish verb group
Sense 2 verb
use a surgical instrument to hold open (the edges of a wound or an organ)
Types & categories
- pull hypernym
Related & opposite
- retractor derivation
Sense 3 verb
move to a rearward position; pull towards the back
Pull back your arms!
Types & categories
- pull hypernym
Related & opposite
- pull back verb group
Sense 4 verb
stretch back a bowstring (on an archer's bow)
The archers were drawing their bows
Types & categories
- stretch hypernym
Related & opposite
- pull back verb group
Sense 5 verb
make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity
We'll have to crawfish out from meeting with him
Related & opposite
- withdrawal derivation
- withdrawer derivation
- withdrawer derivation
- retreat verb group
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | antonym | Related & opposite | advance |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | withdrawal |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | pullback |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | receding |
| 1 | verb group | Related & opposite | crawfish |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | move |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | fall back |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | retreat |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | back off |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | retractor |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | pull |
| 3 | verb group | Related & opposite | pull back |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | pull |
| 4 | verb group | Related & opposite | pull back |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | stretch |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | withdrawal |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | withdrawer |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | withdrawer |
| 5 | verb group | Related & opposite | retreat |