Synonyms for draw back
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : draw-bak |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈdrɔˌbæk |
Top 10 synonyms for draw back Other synonyms for the word draw back
Définition of draw back
Origin :- "hindrance, disadvantage,"1720, from draw (v.) + back (adv.). The notion is of something that "holds back" success or activity.
- verb retract from position
- Yet now that we must meet this thing, you draw back, and would tie my hands as well.
- Extract from : « In the Valley » by Harold Frederic
- He might make mistakes, but he would not doubt and hesitate and draw back.
- Extract from : « The Rock of Chickamauga » by Joseph A. Altsheler
- Was there anything in you that began to draw back from anything in him?
- Extract from : « Bride of the Mistletoe » by James Lane Allen
- I am no lover of sentimental trips on the sea; but this was not the time to draw back.
- Extract from : « A Hero of Our Time » by M. Y. Lermontov
- So binding do I count them, that, if I would, I could not now draw back.
- Extract from : « Scaramouche » by Rafael Sabatini
- The traveller seemed to draw back into his shell at the mention of gold.
- Extract from : « The Hound From The North » by Ridgwell Cullum
- Thousands of Arabs will fight there, and I shall not draw back.
- Extract from : « At Aboukir and Acre » by George Alfred Henty
- But it was too late to draw back; too late even to refuse to help him.
- Extract from : « Nell, of Shorne Mills » by Charles Garvice
- The current was gripping us angrily now; there was no chance to draw back.
- Extract from : « The Trail of '98 » by Robert W. Service
- This was inconvenient; and his mother made him draw back his stool a good way.
- Extract from : « The Crofton Boys » by Harriet Martineau
Antonyms for draw back
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