"pull back" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pulls back",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulling back",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulled back",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulled back",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "pull back (third-person singular simple present pulls back, present participle pulling back, simple past and past participle pulled back)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1994, Linda Winstead, Guardian Angel",
          "text": "Her nightgown was thin, and she felt chilly as she stepped across the hall, pulling back the curtain that shielded Gabriel's room.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Dennis J. Barton, Cola Wars",
          "text": "What's more, I pull back the sheets to take a quick but suspicious gander at Bunny, and she's wearing a pair of my briefs.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Ruth K. Westheimer, Pierre A. Lehu, Sex for Dummies",
          "text": "An uncircumcised man should always take special precautions when bathing to pull back the foreskin and clean carefully around the glans.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pull, back."
      ],
      "id": "en-pull_back-en-verb-ZlTj8Zuc",
      "links": [
        [
          "pull",
          "pull#English"
        ],
        [
          "back",
          "back#English"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2010, Africasia, Birao is a garrison town near the border with Chad and Sudan",
          "text": "Central African armed forces (FACA) troops were forced to pull back from the town and were planning an operation to retake it, the source said.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To retreat."
      ],
      "id": "en-pull_back-en-verb-J1w728ft",
      "links": [
        [
          "retreat",
          "retreat"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Sports",
          "orig": "en:Sports",
          "parents": [
            "Human activity",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "5 5 56 34",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "18 9 50 23",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (back)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "December 1 2010, Paul Fletcher, BBC News, Ipswich 1-0 West Brom\nJason Scotland should have scored after Tamas advanced purposefully down the right before pulling the ball back into the path of his team-mate, who shot straight at Myhill."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To pass (the ball) into a position further from the attacking goal line."
      ],
      "id": "en-pull_back-en-verb-ILVREks1",
      "links": [
        [
          "sports",
          "sports"
        ],
        [
          "pass",
          "pass"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, sports) To pass (the ball) into a position further from the attacking goal line."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "sports"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Sports",
          "orig": "en:Sports",
          "parents": [
            "Human activity",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Feb 19 2007, Al-Jazeera, Stylish Sevilla pull level with faltering Barcelona\nRonaldinho pulled back a goal for Barca in injury time with a classy free-kick, but it was clearly too little too late to prevent their third Liga defeat."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To score when the team is losing."
      ],
      "id": "en-pull_back-en-verb-HSqNkNTy",
      "links": [
        [
          "sports",
          "sports"
        ],
        [
          "score",
          "score"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, sports) To score when the team is losing."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "sports"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pull back"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English phrasal verbs",
    "English phrasal verbs with particle (back)",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pulls back",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulling back",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulled back",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulled back",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "pull back (third-person singular simple present pulls back, present participle pulling back, simple past and past participle pulled back)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1994, Linda Winstead, Guardian Angel",
          "text": "Her nightgown was thin, and she felt chilly as she stepped across the hall, pulling back the curtain that shielded Gabriel's room.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Dennis J. Barton, Cola Wars",
          "text": "What's more, I pull back the sheets to take a quick but suspicious gander at Bunny, and she's wearing a pair of my briefs.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Ruth K. Westheimer, Pierre A. Lehu, Sex for Dummies",
          "text": "An uncircumcised man should always take special precautions when bathing to pull back the foreskin and clean carefully around the glans.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pull, back."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "pull",
          "pull#English"
        ],
        [
          "back",
          "back#English"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2010, Africasia, Birao is a garrison town near the border with Chad and Sudan",
          "text": "Central African armed forces (FACA) troops were forced to pull back from the town and were planning an operation to retake it, the source said.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To retreat."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "retreat",
          "retreat"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English transitive verbs",
        "en:Sports"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "December 1 2010, Paul Fletcher, BBC News, Ipswich 1-0 West Brom\nJason Scotland should have scored after Tamas advanced purposefully down the right before pulling the ball back into the path of his team-mate, who shot straight at Myhill."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To pass (the ball) into a position further from the attacking goal line."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sports",
          "sports"
        ],
        [
          "pass",
          "pass"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, sports) To pass (the ball) into a position further from the attacking goal line."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "sports"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English transitive verbs",
        "en:Sports"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Feb 19 2007, Al-Jazeera, Stylish Sevilla pull level with faltering Barcelona\nRonaldinho pulled back a goal for Barca in injury time with a classy free-kick, but it was clearly too little too late to prevent their third Liga defeat."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To score when the team is losing."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sports",
          "sports"
        ],
        [
          "score",
          "score"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, sports) To score when the team is losing."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "sports"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pull back"
}