pull back (v.)

• alienate
• avoid
• backslide
• balance
• blench
• blink
• boggle
• cock
• cringe
• debate
• delete
• deliberate
• demur
• depart
• disarticulate
• disconnect
• disengage
• disjoin
• disjoint
• dissociate
• disunite
• divide
• divorce
• dodge
• duck
• eject
• equivocate
• estrange
• evade
• expel
• fade
• falter
• fear
• fence
• flinch
• hedge
• hesitate
• hover
• isolate
• jib
• lapse
• leave
• parry
• part
• pause
• ponder
• pussyfoot
• quail
• recede
• recidivate
• recoil
• regress
• relapse
• retire
• retract
• retreat
• retroflex
• retrograde
• retrogress
• return
• revert
• scruple
• segregate
• separate
• sequester
• shift
• shrink
• shy
• sidestep
• split
• stickle
• strain
• subtract
• swerve
• uncouple
• unyoke
• waver
• wince
• withdraw
• yield