pull back

verb

1. pull back or move away or backward"The enemy withdrew"
2. use a surgical instrument to hold open (the edges of a wound or an organ)
3. move to a rearward position; pull towards the back"Pull back your arms!"
4. stretch back a bowstring (on an archer's bow)"The archers were drawing their bows"
5. make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity"We'll have to crawfish out from meeting with him"