DRAW BACK
Dictionary entry overview: What does draw back mean?
• DRAW BACK (verb)
The verb DRAW BACK has 2 senses:
1. pull back or move away or backward
2. use a surgical instrument to hold open (the edges of a wound or an organ)
Familiarity information: DRAW BACK used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• DRAW BACK (verb)
Meaning:
Pull back or move away or backward
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
retreat; recede; pull back; pull away; move back; draw back; withdraw; retire
Context examples:
The enemy withdrew / The limo pulled away from the curb
Hypernyms (to "draw back" is one way to...):
go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "draw back"):
fall back; recede; retire (move back and away from)
back down; back off; back up (move backwards from a certain position)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s PP
Meaning:
Use a surgical instrument to hold open (the edges of a wound or an organ)
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
draw back; pull back; retract
Hypernyms (to "draw back" is one way to...):
pull (apply force so as to cause motion towards the source of the motion)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
