| cockroach | | |
| n. (animal) | 1. cockroach, roach | any of numerous chiefly nocturnal insects; some are domestic pests. |
| ~ dictyopterous insect | cockroaches and mantids. |
| ~ blattaria, blattodea, suborder blattaria, suborder blattodea | cockroaches; in some classifications considered an order. |
| ~ asiatic cockroach, blackbeetle, blatta orientalis, oriental cockroach, oriental roach | dark brown cockroach originally from orient now nearly cosmopolitan in distribution. |
| ~ american cockroach, periplaneta americana | large reddish brown free-flying cockroach originally from southern United States but now widely distributed. |
| ~ australian cockroach, periplaneta australasiae | widely distributed in warm countries. |
| ~ blattella germanica, croton bug, crotonbug, german cockroach, water bug | small light-brown cockroach brought to United States from Europe; a common household pest. |
| ~ giant cockroach | large tropical American cockroaches. |
| draw back | | |
| v. (motion) | 1. draw back, move back, pull away, pull back, recede, retire, retreat, withdraw | pull back or move away or backward.; "The enemy withdrew"; "The limo pulled away from the curb" |
| ~ back away, crawfish, crawfish out, pull in one's horns, back out, retreat, pull back, withdraw | make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity.; "We'll have to crawfish out from meeting with him"; "He backed out of his earlier promise"; "The aggressive investment company pulled in its horns" |
| ~ go, locomote, move, travel | change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically.; "How fast does your new car go?"; "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell"; "news travelled fast" |
| ~ fall back | move back and away from.; "The enemy fell back" |
| ~ retreat, retrograde | move back.; "The glacier retrogrades" |
| ~ back down, back off, back up | move backwards from a certain position.; "The bully had to back down" |
| v. (contact) | 2. draw back, pull back, retract | use a surgical instrument to hold open (the edges of a wound or an organ). |
| ~ pull | apply force so as to cause motion towards the source of the motion.; "Pull the rope"; "Pull the handle towards you"; "pull the string gently"; "pull the trigger of the gun"; "pull your knees towards your chin" |
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