DRAW BACK

Pronunciation (US):

• 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.

• 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