Word relationships
Synonyms
retreat, back out, back away, crawfish, crawfish out, pull in one's horns, withdraw
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Local English word record
pull back
make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity
Practice this wordExamples
- We'll have to crawfish out from meeting with him
- He backed out of his earlier promise
- The aggressive investment company pulled in its horns
Source and method
This page uses the locally materialized K5English vocabulary cohort. WordNet, where present, is enrichment only and does not determine K-5 admission.