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Pull back

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Verb
  1. 1
    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pull, back.

    "Her nightgown was thin, and she felt chilly as she stepped across the hall, pulling back the curtain that shielded Gabriel's room."

  2. 2
    make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity wordnet
  3. 3
    To retreat.

    "Central African armed forces (FACA) troops were forced to pull back from the town and were planning an operation to retake it, the source said."

  4. 4
    stretch back a bowstring (on an archer's bow) wordnet
  5. 5
    To pass (the ball) into a position further from the attacking goal line. transitive

    "December 1 2010, Paul Fletcher, BBC News, Ipswich 1-0 West Brom Jason Scotland should have scored after Tamas advanced purposefully down the right before pulling the ball back into the path of his team-mate, who shot straight at Myhill."

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  1. 6
    move to a rearward position; pull towards the back wordnet
  2. 7
    To score when the team is losing. transitive

    "Feb 19 2007, Al-Jazeera, Stylish Sevilla pull level with faltering Barcelona Ronaldinho pulled back a goal for Barca in injury time with a classy free-kick, but it was clearly too little too late to prevent their third Liga defeat."

  3. 8
    use a surgical instrument to hold open (the edges of a wound or an organ) wordnet
  4. 9
    pull back or move away or backward wordnet

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