Pull Back

Definition: Pull Back

Pull Back

Verb

1. Pull back or move away or backward; "The enemy withdrew"; "The limo pulled away from the curb".

2. Use a surgical instrument to hold open (the edges of a wound or an organ).

3. Move to a rearward position; pull towards the back; "Pull back your arms!".

4. Pull back the sling of (a bow); "The archers were drawing their bows".

5. 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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Pull Back

Crosswords: Pull Back

Pull back now! (Shadow Raiders; writing credit: Christy Marx; Katherine Lawrence)

Do it, and you'll pull back a bloody stub. (Charmed; writing credit: Colman deKay)

Don't you go in my room by mistake, cause if I pull back them covers and see you I might have a stroke and die. (Sanford and Son; writing credit: Earl Barret; Ted Bergman)

To pull back the door. (The Earth, The Sun, The Rain; performing artist: Color Me Badd)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Economic History

Cuba (09/01)

In the late 1980s, Cuba began to pull back militarily. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Albanian

tërheq mbrapsht (recant). (various references)

Arabic 

‏إنسحب (draw back, drop, drop out, move back, pull out, push off, recede, retire, retreat, separate, shag off, slope, smooth away, stand down, step down, subtract, withdraw). (various references)

Bulgarian 

спънка (backset, balk, baulk, countercheck, cramp, difficulty, drawback, hindrance, hitch, hobble, impediment, interference, interruption, kink, liability, manacle, obstacle, preclusion, setback, shoal, stumbling block), оттеглям се (adjourn, back, back away, disengage, draw back, draw off, draw out, fall back, fall off, give back, give way to, recede, repair, retire, retreat, retrocede, retrograde, run out, scuttle, seclude, step down, withdraw), отдръпвам (draw back, pull away, withdraw), пречка (bit, block, blockage, check, clog, cross, difficulty, disadvantage, disqualification, embarrassment, encumbrance, handicap, hindrance, holdback, hurdle, impediment, kibosh, let, liability, manacle, obstacle, preclusion, remora, rub, setback, spoke, stay, stop, stumbling-stone, traverse), дърпам (drag, draw, haul, heave, lug, pluck, pull, strain at, throw back). (various references)

Chinese 

�"�縮 (contract, shrink). (various references)

Czech

zastavit (arrest, call a halt, call off, cease, check, discontinue, draw up, halt, hock, immobilize, pawn, put in, quit, stay, stem, stop, suspend, tackle), zastavení (cessation, discontinuance, halt, let up, stand, stay, stillstand, stop, suspension, tackle), zarazit (hammer in, shut off, trig). (various references)

French

s'enfuir, se retirer (pull out), ramener. (various references)

German

zurückziehen (abjure, backtrack, draw away, draw back, fly back, march back, move back, retire, retract, retreat, retrieve, revocation, revoke, to retire, to retract, to retrieve, withdraw, withdrawn), zurückschlagen (beat back, beat off, beatback, fight back, flare back, fold back, hit back, kick, knock away, knock back, leaf back, repel, repulse, retaliate, return, roll back, strike back, swing back, to repulse, to strike back, turn down), aich zurückziehen. (various references)

Hungarian

visszahúz (retract, to draw back, to pull back, to retract), hátráltat (to balk, to baulk, to set back), ablakkitámasztó (sneck). (various references)

Italian

tirare indietro (retract), ritirarsi (drop out, ebb, flinch, go back on, neap, recede, retire, retreat, shrink, stand down, withdraw). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

�"勢 (strength needed to pull back a bow). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ゆ�"ぜい (strength needed to pull back a bow). (various references)

Manx

bac (balk, disability, disqualification, drawback, handicap, moratorium, objection, obstacle, snag, stay, trap). (various references)

Pig Latin

ullpay ackbay

Romanian

piedicã (balk, bar, brake, check, clog, cumber, delay, difficulty, drag, drawback, embargo, encumbrance, fetter, hindrance, hitch, hold back, impediment, interference, jog, lock, marplot, objection, obstacle, obstruction, sear, set back, sprag, stay, stop, stopper, stopple, stumbling-bloc, trammel, traverse, trigger), tragere înapoi. (various references)

Russian 

отход (back track, backtrack, leavings, retreat), оттягиваться назад, препятствие (balk, barrier, baulk, block, check, clog, contrariety, countercheck, discouragement, disincentive, drawback, encumbrance, hedge, holdback, hurdle, impediment, leap, manacle, obstacle, obstruction, preclusion, setback, traverse). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

povući se (baulk, draw back, fall back, lose ground, pull out, retreat, stand down), povlačenje (dragging, draw, recall, retirement, retreat, rout, withdrawal). (various references)

Spanish

retrasar (back up, check, delay, hold up, put back, retard, set back, sojourn, take back, turn back), echar para atrás. (various references)

Swedish

tillbakadragande (retirement, withdrawal, withdrawing), dra sig tillbaka (draw back, ebb, fall back, recarde, retire, stand down). (various references)

Ukrainian

відтягувати (abduct, weight down), затримувати (apprehend, arrest, balk, dam, defer, delay, deport, detain, impede, impound, intern, nip, withhold). (various references)

retraho, retraho, retraxi, retractum, retraxi. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: pullback.

-2 letters: backup.

-3 letters: baulk, black, bulla, caulk, culpa, plack, pluck, pucka.

-4 letters: back, balk, ball, buck, bulk, bull, calk, call, caul, clap, club, cull, lack, luck, pack, pall, puck, pula, pull.

-5 letters: alb, all, alp, auk, bal, bap, cab, cap, cub, cup, kab, lab, lac, lap, pac, pal, pub, pul.

+1 letter: pullbacks.