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Verb
pull back
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pull , back .
To retreat
2010 , Africasia, Birao is a garrison town near the border with Chad and Sudan :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.
To retract
( transitive ) to pull in order to reveal something underneath or behind.
1994 , Linda Winstead, Guardian Angel :Her nightgown was thin, and she felt chilly as she stepped across the hall, pulling back the curtain that shielded Gabriel's room.
2002 Dennis J. Barton, Cola Wars
What's more, I pull back the sheets to take a quick but suspicious gander at Bunny, and she's wearing a pair of my briefs.
2006 , Ruth K. Westheimer, Pierre A. Lehu, Sex for Dummies
An uncircumcised man should always take special precautions when bathing to pull back the foreskin and clean carefully around the glans.
( transitive , sports ) To pass (the ball) into a position further from the attacking goal line.
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.
( transitive , sports ) To score when the team is losing.
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.
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