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Antonyms for draw back


Grammar : Verb
Spell : draw-bak
Phonetic Transcription : ˈdrɔˌbæk



Definition 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
Example sentences :
  • 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

Synonyms for draw back

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