Pull away (original) (raw)

I. (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pull back or move away or backward

Example:

The limo pulled away from the curb

Synonyms:

draw back; move back; pull away; pull back; recede; retire; retreat; withdraw

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "pull away" is one way to...):

go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically)

Verb group:

back away; back out; crawfish; crawfish out; pull back; pull in one's horns; retreat; withdraw (make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pull away"):

fall back (move back and away from)

retreat; retrograde (move back)

back down; back off; back up (move backwards from a certain position)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s PP

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