1.
When a vehicle or driver pulls away, the vehicle starts moving forward.
I stood in the driveway and watched him back out and ~.
PHRASAL VERB: V P
2.
If you ~ 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, ~...
He’d pulled away from her as if she had leprosy.
PHRASAL VERB: V P, V P from n