Draw Back

Definition: Draw Back

Draw 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).

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

Synonyms: Draw Back

Avoidance

Shrink back; hang back, hold back, draw back; recoil; retire; (recede); flinch, blink, blench, shy, shirk, dodge, parry, make way for, give place to.

Regression

Verb: recede, regrade, return, revert, retreat, retire; retrograde, retrocede; back out; back down; balk; crawfish, crawl; withdraw; rebound; go back, come back, turn back, hark back, draw back, fall back, get back, put back, run back; lose ground; fall astern, drop astern; backwater, put about; backtrack, take the back track; veer round; double, wheel, countermarch; ebb, regurgitate; jib, shrink, shy.

Crosswords: Draw Back

Cupid, don't draw back your bow (Sleepwalker; performing artist: The Wallflowers)

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

Books

• Draw back the curtains; an autobiography (reference)

• El Trâafico de perfeccionamiento : admisiâon temporal, reposiciâon con franquicia, draw back (reference)

  (more book examples)

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

The poor child, accustomed only to blows, had no idea what this meant, and would draw back ashamed

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

They would like to enter into draw back contracts with foreign firms for their printing needs. (references)

The products most frequently exported to Brazil were peripheral or complementary irrigation equipment, usually imported on a draw back basis. (references)

Trade

Colombia

Products that require special documentation include: vegetables, plants, fruits, animals, gold, emeralds, oil, coal, nickel, platinum, textiles, products exported through the GSP (General System of Preferences), products exported through the ATPA (Andean Trade Preference Act), products exported through any Free Trade Agreement, and products exported through the Colombian draw back system known as "Plan Vallejo". (references)

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

Expressions using "draw back": draw back quickly ♦ To draw back. Additional references.

Albanian

tërhiqem (back away, back out of, backpedal, backslide, climb down, deny, depart, draw away, fall back, give ground, rebound, recede, recoil, retire, retrograde, shrink, withdraw), prapsem (back up, keep back, lose ground, recoil, rein back, shy). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تراجع (back away, back down, back up, backwards, blemish, degradation, drawback, fall back, fall behind, give back, give ground, give the right of way, kick, lose ground, move back, palinode, recede, recess, recession, recoil, regress, regression, renege, retire, retract, retraction, retreat, retreating, retrogression, sell out, stand, take back, turn back, unsay, withdraw), ‏إنسحب (drop, drop out, move back, pull back, pull out, push off, recede, retire, retreat, separate, shag off, slope, smooth away, stand down, step down, subtract, withdraw), ‏إرتد (bounce, cringe, rebound, recant, recoil, reflex, regress, renegade, renounce, reverberate, shrink, withdraw). (various references)

Bulgarian 

отстъпвам (accede to, backpedal, backslide, backtrack, comply, concede, defer, deliver, fall back, give, give back, give ground, give in, give up, give way to, knuckle under, part with, release, retire, retreat, retrocede, say uncle, stand aside, stand back, step back, submit, succumb, vail), оттеглям се (adjourn, back, back away, disengage, draw off, draw out, fall back, fall off, give back, give way to, pull back, recede, repair, retire, retreat, retrocede, retrograde, run out, scuttle, seclude, step down, withdraw), отказвам се (backtrack, cede, forego, forgo, forsake, pack up, release, resign), отдръпвам (pull away, pull back, withdraw). (various references)

Chinese 

後退 (fall back, recoil, retreat). (various references)

Czech

vycouvat (back away), stáhnout zpìt, odradit (discourage, dissuade, pour cold water on, scare off). (various references)

Dutch

terugtrekken (go back, retreat, return, withdraw), intrekken (withdraw). (various references)

Esperanto

retiri (withdraw). (various references)

Faeroese

taka aftur (abjure, abolish, abrogate, annul, cancel, remit, withdraw). (various references)

Finnish

vetäytyä (fall back, retire, retreat, withdraw). (various references)

French

retirer (drop). (various references)

German

zurückziehen (abjure, backtrack, draw away, fly back, march back, move back, pull back, retire, retract, retreat, retrieve, revocation, revoke, to retire, to retract, to retrieve, withdraw, withdrawn), zurückweichen (back away, fall back, flinch, move back, recede, retreat, shrink back, shy away, stand back, subside, to flinch, withdraw), wegziehen (migrate, move, move away, pull away, whip away, whip off), aufziehen (arrange, back, breed, bring up, come up, draw up, educate, foster, haul up, hoist, hoist up, Josh, kid, lead on, let up, make fun of, march up, mother, Mount, mounting, pull open, pull up, put on, rag, raise, ravel out, razz, rear, set up, slip on, strech, stretch, tease, to razz, to twit, to wind up, twit, uncork, undo, unravel, untie, wind, wind up, zoom out). (various references)

Greek 

σύρω πίσω, μειονέκτω (be at a disadvantage), οπισθοχωρώ (back, blench, fall back, flinch, shrink). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"רתע (back away, blench, boggle, cringe, flinch, recoil, refrain, retract, retreat, withdraw), לס�'ת (back away, fall back, give ground, lose ground, recede, retire, retract, retreat, withdraw). (various references)

Hungarian

visszahúzódik (move back, shrank, shrunk, to draw back, to hold back, to recede, to recess, to recoil, to shrink), elpártol (to bolt, to draw back, to fall away, to rat, to scuttle). (various references)

Italian

ritrarre (depict, divert, get out, picture, portray, portray oneself, represent, retract), ritirare (abstract, collect, draw, evacuate, pick up, recede, retire, retract, seclude, shrink, subside, take, take away, throw again, to withdraw, withdraw), indietreggiare (back, blench, flinch, go, go back, go backwards, hang back, recoil, rein back, retreat, shrink), arretrare (backspace). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

竦める (to draw back, to duck, to shrug), 引っ込む (to cave in, to draw back, to sink). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

すくめる (to draw back, to duck, to shrug), ひっ�"む (to cave in, to draw back, to sink). (various references)

Manx

tayrn er ash (draw off, pull back; revocation, retract, retractation, stand down, withdraw, withdrawal), goll er ash (ascend, ascend genealogy, go back, regress, regression, retrospective, return, reversal, reversion, revert), goll back. (various references)

Pig Latin

awdray ackbay.(various references)

Romanian

se retrage (adjourn, climb, crane, cry off, draw off, efface, fall back, give way, make one's bow, move back, repair in, repair to, retire, retract, retreat, shrink, shrink from, stand back, step aside, withdraw). (various references)

Russian 

вынудить отойти, отступать (back away, back down, backtrack, blench, change one's base, digress, fall back, fell back, flinch, give ground, give grounds, lose ground, move back, recede, retire, retrograde, retrogress, stand back, step back), отводить войска, отодвигать. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

povući se (baulk, fall back, lose ground, pull back, pull out, retreat, stand down). (various references)

Spanish

devolverse atrás, descorrer (draw aside), dar un paso hacia atrás, retroceder a (reel), retirarse (bolt, bow out, disengage, draw away, fall back, remove, retire, retreat, scratch, sequester oneself, withdraw), retirar (draw, draw in, drop, pension off, recall, remove, retire, retract, scratch, withdraw), cejar (be chicken, blench, reel), arredrarse (flinch, get scared). (various references)

Swedish

dra tillbaka (back, draw off, retract, withdraw), dra sig undan (draw away, fight shy of, hold back), dra sig tillbaka (ebb, fall back, pull back, recarde, retire, stand down), dra ifrån (detract, draw away, gain on, gain up, gain upon, take away). (various references)

Turkish

yerine getirmemek (go back on), gerilemek (degrade, deteriorate, drop back, drop behind, drop off, fall back, lose ground, recede, redound, regress, remount, retreat, retrograde, slip, stand back, turn back, worsen), geri kalmak (fall behind, hang back, hang behind, lag, lag behind, lose), geri almak (claw back, declare off, recall, recapture, resume, retake, retract, retrieve, revoke, set back, swallow, take back, turn back, withdraw), geri çekmek (draw away, draw off, recall, retire, retract, withdraw), çekilmek (abdicate, be pulled, bolt, bow, bow out, decline, desist, draw away, draw off, dry up, ebb, edge out, give over, go out, gravitate, opt out, quit, recede, repair, resign, retire, retract, scratch, secede, stand, step aside, step down, walk out, withdraw). (various references)

Ukrainian

відступати (back, back down, backtrack, blench, crawfish, deviate, digress, draw off, drop back, ebb, fall back, flinch, give ground, go back, recede, retreat, retrograde, shy, stand away, stand back, walk backward). (various references)

retractat, retractu, retrahas, retrahe, retrahente, retrahere, retraxerunt, retraxit. (various references)

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

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: backward, drawback.

-3 letters: aback, award, kabar, wrack.

-4 letters: arak, back, bard, bark, bawd, brad, braw, carb, card, cark, crab, craw, darb, dark, dawk, drab, draw, kbar, rack, wack, ward, wark.

-5 letters: aba, arb, arc, ark, awa, baa, bad, bar, bra, cab, cad, car, caw, dab, dak, daw, kab, rad, raw, wab, wad, war.

+1 letter: backwards, drawbacks.

+2 letters: backwardly.

+4 letters: backwardness.