draw_back has definitions from the field of surgery
1
[ verb ] pull back or move away or backward

Examples

"The enemy withdrew" "The limo pulled away from the curb"

Used in print

(Sallie Bingham, "Moving Day," The Atlantic...)

He drew_back , embarrassed and pleased .

2
[ verb ] (surgery) use a surgical instrument to hold open (the edges of a wound or an organ)

Synonyms

retract pull_back

Related terms

pull retractor

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