Definition of "pull back"

pull back

verb
third-person singular simple present pulls back, present participle pulling back, simple past and past participle pulled back
1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pull,‎ back.
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  Her nightgown was thin, and she felt chilly as she stepped across the hall, pulling back the curtain that shielded Gabriel's room.
  1994, Linda Winstead, Guardian Angel
  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.
  2002, Dennis J. Barton, Cola Wars
  An uncircumcised man should always take special precautions when bathing to pull back the foreskin and clean carefully around the glans.
  2006, Ruth K. Westheimer, Pierre A. Lehu, Sex for Dummies
2. To retreat.
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  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.
  2010, Africasia, Birao is a garrison town near the border with Chad and Sudan
3. (transitive, sports) To pass (the ball) into a position further from the attacking goal line.
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  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.
  December 1 2010, Paul Fletcher, BBC News, Ipswich 1-0 West Brom
4. (transitive, sports) To score when the team is losing.
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  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.
  Feb 19 2007, Al-Jazeera, Stylish Sevilla pull level with faltering Barcelona

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