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• v  pull back or move away or backward
• v  use a surgical instrument to hold open (the edges of a wound or an organ)

• withdraw
• retreat
• pull away
• recede
• pull back
• retire
• move back
• retract

• advance

News & Articles

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• IMF to US: Cut out the "ill-designed" budget cuts
  The International Monetary Fund asked the US to draw back government spending cuts that took effect earlier this year, calling them "excessively rapid and ill-designed."
  June 16, 2013 - GlobalPost