pull back
verbverified·updated Jun 3, 2026
use a surgical instrument to hold open (the edges of a wound or an organ)
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Senses
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make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity
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stretch back a bowstring on an archer's bow
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move to a rearward position
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pull back or move away or backward
Classifications
Cognitive
Understand72%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Responsibility
Unclassified—trigger_default_value
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Automation
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Variants
- synonym
- drawretractretreat
- pasttense
- pulled back
- presentparticiple
- pulling back
- thirdpersonsingular
- pulls back
- pastparticiple
- pulled back