1.
When a vehicle or driver pulls away , the vehicle starts moving forward.
I stood in the driveway and watched him back out and pull away.
PHRASAL VERB : V P
2.
If you pull away from someone that you have had close links with, you deliberately become less close to them.
Other daughters, faced with their mother’s emotional hunger, pull away...
He’d pulled away from her as if she had leprosy.
PHRASAL VERB : V P , V P from n