pull away

1. 1.

   pull back or move away or backward

   “The enemy withdrew”

   “The limo pulled away from the curb”

   Synonymswithdrawretreatdraw backrecedepull backretiremove back

   Broadertravel

   Narrowerfall backretrogradeback up

Questions about pull away

What does pull away mean?

pull away means "pull back or move away or backward".

What is another word for pull away?

Close synonyms include withdraw, retreat, draw back, recede, pull back. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pull away a common word?

pull away is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.