Usually means: Increase distance from someone, something.
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  1. pull away: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pull away: Merriam-Webster
  3. pull away: Vocabulary.com
  4. pull away: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. pull away: Wiktionary
  6. pull away: Dictionary.com
  7. pull away: Rhymezone
  8. pull away: FreeDictionary.org
  9. pull away: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. pull away: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (pull away)

▸ verb:  (idiomatic) To move ahead.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To move oneself further from a target, either literally or figuratively

Similar:
withdraw, draw back, retreat, retire, recede, move back, pull back, wrest, force away, move ahead, more...

Types:
separate, divorce, leave, withdraw, abandon, retreat, disengage, more...

Phrases:
to pull away, gently pull away, quickly pull away, pull away harshly, pull back or move away or backward, more...

Adjectives:
off, runaway, run, put off, away, go, out, quit, departed, alight, offn

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Similar:
withdraw, draw back, retreat, retire, recede, move back, pull back, wrest, force away, move ahead, more...

Types:
separate, divorce, leave, withdraw, abandon, retreat, disengage, more...

Phrases:
to pull away, gently pull away, quickly pull away, pull away harshly, pull back or move away or backward, pull back or move away, pull hand away, pull away quickly, more...

Adjectives:
off, runaway, run, put off, away, go, out, quit, departed, alight, offn



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