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pull back
verb
1 pull back
2 pull back
Use a surgical instrument to hold open (the edges of a wound or an organ).
synonyms: draw back, retract.
3 pull back
Move to a rearward position; pull towards the back.
4 pull back
Stretch back a bowstring (on an archer's bow).
synonym: draw.
5 pull back
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