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Pull   /pʊl/   Listen
Pull

verb
(past & past part. pulled; pres. part. pulling)
1.
Cause to move by pulling.  Synonyms: draw, force.  "Pull a sled"
2.
Direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes.  Synonyms: attract, draw, draw in, pull in.  "The ad pulled in many potential customers" , "This pianist pulls huge crowds" , "The store owner was happy that the ad drew in many new customers"
3.
Move into a certain direction.
4.
Apply force so as to cause motion towards the source of the motion.  "Pull the handle towards you" , "Pull the string gently" , "Pull the trigger of the gun" , "Pull your knees towards your chin"
5.
Perform an act, usually with a negative connotation.  Synonyms: commit, perpetrate.  "Pull a bank robbery"
6.
Bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover.  Synonyms: draw, get out, pull out, take out.  "Pull out a gun" , "The mugger pulled a knife on his victim"
7.
Steer into a certain direction.  "Pull the car over"
8.
Strain abnormally.  Synonym: overstretch.  "The athlete pulled a tendon in the competition"
9.
Cause to move in a certain direction by exerting a force upon, either physically or in an abstract sense.  Synonym: draw.
10.
Operate when rowing a boat.
11.
Rein in to keep from winning a race.
12.
Tear or be torn violently.  Synonyms: rend, rip, rive.  "Pull the cooked chicken into strips"
13.
Hit in the direction that the player is facing when carrying through the swing.
14.
Strip of feathers.  Synonyms: deplumate, deplume, displume, pluck, tear.  "Pluck the capon"
15.
Remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense.  Synonyms: draw out, extract, pull out, pull up, take out.  "Extract a bad tooth" , "Take out a splinter" , "Extract information from the telegram"
16.
Take sides with; align oneself with; show strong sympathy for.  Synonym: root for.  "I'm pulling for the underdog" , "Are you siding with the defender of the title?"
17.
Take away.
noun
1.
The act of pulling; applying force to move something toward or with you.  Synonym: pulling.  "His strenuous pulling strained his back"
2.
The force used in pulling.  "The pull of the current"
3.
Special advantage or influence.  Synonym: clout.
4.
A device used for pulling something.
5.
A sharp strain on muscles or ligaments.  Synonyms: twist, wrench.  "He was sidelined with a hamstring pull"
6.
A slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke).  Synonyms: drag, puff.  "He took a drag on his cigarette and expelled the smoke slowly"
7.
A sustained effort.



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"Pull" Quotes from Famous Books



... baskets, clothing, everything owned by the deceased, and often donating much extra; all gathered around the grave wailing most pitifully, tearing their faces with their nails till the blood would run down their cheeks, pull out their hair, and such other heathenish conduct. These burials were generally made under their thatch houses or very near thereto. The house where one died was always torn down, removed, rebuilt, or ...
— A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians • H.C. Yarrow
... suggested: so he said nothing. The Leopard was a faster tug than the one which had come off from Fort Gaines, and she came up with the boat which contained Lieutenant Dallberg and his two men, the latter of whom were nearly exhausted with the long pull they had taken; for, as they were not sailors, they did not row ...
— Taken by the Enemy • Oliver Optic
... can haue the fortitude, To lop a limbe off, or pull out an eye, Or being in a heauenly seruitude, To free your selues would with the damned lye? Of force with me you now must all conclude, That mortall men are subiect to loues rod, But heere you shall perceiue that onely I, Am natures ...
— Seven Minor Epics of the English Renaissance (1596-1624) • Dunstan Gale
... occasion when he was sitting on the upper verandah of the Club Hotel in Suva with two of his servants squatting near by, the whisky he had drunk had made him feel so sleepy, that he nearly fell into the street below, but his servants dared not lay hands on him to pull him back into safety, as his body was considered sacred by his people, and they dared not touch him. He declared to me that he would have been killed if a white man had not arrived just in time. He was very fond of telling me this story, and always laughed heartily over it. I noticed ...
— Wanderings Among South Sea Savages And in Borneo and the Philippines • H. Wilfrid Walker
... told me he was planning to do the fall ploughing with Cupid and Puck. He says they have plenty of pull left in them and my private opinion is that Cousin Ann's old coach will not stand ...
— The Comings of Cousin Ann • Emma Speed Sampson


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