pull back

Weak matches

• back out
• backpedal
• crawfish
• retreat
• withdraw

Strongest matches

• abandon
• admit
• back off
• back out
• backtrack
• balk
• cancel
• cave in
• concede
• give in
• give up
• pull out
• renege
• retreat
• surrender
• take back
• withdraw

Weak matches

• accede
• acquiesce
• back pedal
• beg off
• bow out
• chicken out
• cop out
• demur
• give ground
• go back on
• have no fight left
• hold back
• recant
• recoil
• resign
• submit
• wimp out
• withdraw from agreement or statement
• yield

Weak matches

• deduct
• discount
• recede
• recoil
• reel in
• retreat
• sheathe
• shrink
• start back
• subtract
• take away
• withdraw

Strongest matches

• balk
• dither
• falter
• pause
• ponder
• stumble
• waffle
• waver

Strong matches

• alternate
• balance
• dally
• debate
• defer
• delay
• demur
• dillydally
• doubt
• equivocate
• flounder
• fluctuate
• fumble
• hang
• hedge
• hover
• linger
• oscillate
• pussyfoot
• scruple
• seesaw
• shift
• shrink
• stammer
• stop
• straddle
• stutter
• swerve
• tergiversate
• vacillate
• weigh

Weak matches

• be irresolute
• be reluctant
• be unwilling
• blow hot and cold
• hang back
• hem and haw
• hold back
• hold off
• shy away
• sit on fence
• think about
• think twice

Strongest matches

• backfire
• balk
• blanch
• blink
• cringe
• demur
• flinch
• hesitate
• reel
• shudder
• tremble
• turn away
• waver
• wince

Strong matches

• blench
• carom
• dodge
• duck
• falter
• jerk
• kick
• quail
• quake
• react
• rebound
• resile
• shake
• shirk
• shrink
• spring
• start
• stick
• stickle
• swerve
• withdraw

Weak matches

• draw back
• shy away
• step back

Strongest matches

• confine
• constrain
• curb
• curtail
• detain
• deter
• govern
• hamper
• hinder
• inhibit
• keep down
• kill
• limit
• prevent
• repress
• restrict
• subdue
• suppress

Strong matches

• arrest
• bind
• bridle
• chain
• check
• circumscribe
• contain
• control
• cool
• cork
• debar
• delimit
• direct
• fetter
• gag
• guide
• harness
• hold
• impound
• imprison
• jail
• keep
• manacle
• muzzle
• pinion
• proscribe
• stay

Weak matches

• bottle up
• box up
• choke back
• crack down
• hem in
• hogtie
• keep in line
• lock up
• sit on
• tie down
• tie up

Strongest matches

• depart
• go
• pull out
• relinquish
• remove
• retreat
• separate
• surrender
• withdraw

Strong matches

• decamp
• ebb
• exit
• part
• recede
• regress
• repeal
• rescind
• resign
• revoke
• rusticate
• secede
• yield

Weak matches

• absent oneself
• deny oneself
• draw back
• fall back
• get away
• get off
• give ground
• give up work
• give way
• go away
• go to bed
• go to one's room
• go to sleep
• hand over
• hit the sack
• leave service
• make vacant
• run along
• seclude oneself
• sever connections
• stop working
• take off
• turn in

Strongest matches

• back down
• back off
• cancel
• deny
• disavow
• disown
• recant
• renege
• renounce
• repeal
• repudiate
• rescind
• reverse
• revoke
• rule out
• take back
• withdraw

Strong matches

• abjure
• back
• countermand
• disclaim
• eliminate
• exclude
• forswear
• recall
• recede
• retreat
• retrograde
• sheathe
• suspend
• unsay
• unsend

Weak matches

• back out of
• call off
• change one's mind
• draw in
• eat one's words
• fall back
• forget it
• go back on
• have change of heart
• pull in
• reel in
• retrocede
• take in

Strong matches

• decamp
• depart
• ebb
• exit
• go
• part
• pension
• recede
• regress
• relinquish
• remove
• repeal
• rescind
• resign
• retreat
• revoke
• rusticate
• secede
• separate
• surrender
• withdraw
• yield

Weak matches

• absent oneself
• deny oneself
• draw back
• fall back
• get away
• get off
• give ground
• give up work
• give way
• go away
• go to bed
• go to one's room
• go to sleep
• hand over
• hit the sack
• leave service
• make vacant
• pull out
• put out to pasture
• run along
• seclude oneself
• sever connections
• stop working
• take off
• turn in

Strongest matches

• depart
• disengage
• drop out
• eliminate
• go
• leave
• pull out
• quit
• retire
• retreat

Strong matches

• abjure
• blow
• book
• detach
• exit
• extract
• quail
• recede
• recoil
• secede
• shrink
• switch
• vacate

Weak matches

• absent oneself
• back out
• bail out
• bow out
• check out
• draw away
• draw back
• ease out
• exfiltrate
• fall back
• get away
• get lost
• get off
• give ground
• give way
• keep aloof
• keep apart
• make oneself scarce
• phase out
• run along
• seclude oneself
• take a hike
• take away
• take leave
• take off
• take out