Word Meanings - PULL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To hold back, and so prevent from winning; as, the favorite was pulled. (more info) 1. To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly. Ne'er pull your hat upon your brows. Shak. He put forth his hand . . . and pulled her in. Gen. viii.

Additional info about word: PULL

To hold back, and so prevent from winning; as, the favorite was pulled. (more info) 1. To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly. Ne'er pull your hat upon your brows. Shak. He put forth his hand . . . and pulled her in. Gen. viii. 9. 2. To draw apart; to tear; to rend. He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate. Lam. iii. 11. 3. To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward one; to pluck; as, to pull fruit; to pull flax; to pull a finch. 4. To move or operate by the motion of drawing towards one; as, to pull a bell; to pull an oar.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PULL)

• Drag
• Draw
• pull
• haul
• bring
• attract
• induce
• entice
• inhale
• sketch
• delineate
• describe
• Prosaic
• Pull
• matter-of-fact
• tedious
• prolix
• Snatch
• Twitch
• pluck
• catch
• grasp
• gripe
• clutch

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PULL)

• Liberate
• release
• emancipate
• Slave
• prevent
• disincline
• dissuade

Related words: (words related to PULL)

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  See WORM
• BROKERY
  The business of a broker. And with extorting, cozening, forfeiting, And tricks belonging unto brokery. Marlowe.
• BREVIARY
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• BRITTLELY
  In a brittle manner. Sherwood.
• BRAND IRON
  1. A branding iron. 2. A trivet to set a pot on. Huloet. 3. The horizontal bar of an andiron.
• BRAZIL NUT
  An oily, three-sided nut, the seed of the Bertholletia excelsa; the cream nut. Note: From eighteen to twenty-four of the seed or "nuts" grow in a hard and nearly globular shell.
• BRAST
  To burst. And both his yën braste out of his face. Chaucer. Dreadfull furies which their chains have brast. Spenser.
• BREAKMAN
  See BRAKEMAN
• BROID
  To braid. Chaucer.
• BROIDERER
  One who embroiders.
• BRUISEWORT
  A plant supposed to heal bruises, as the true daisy, the soapwort, and the comfrey.
• INDUCER
  One who, or that which, induces or incites.
• BRAWNER
  A boor killed for the table.
• BRACHIOGANOID
  One of the Brachioganoidei.
• PREVENTATIVE
  That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
• BRITANNIC
  Of or pertaining to Great Britain; British; as, her Britannic Majesty.
• BRANCHIOSTOMA
  The lancelet. See Amphioxus.
• BROKEN WIND
  The heaves.
• PLUCK
  The heart, liver, and lights of an animal. 3. Spirit; courage; indomitable resolution; fortitude. Decay of English spirit, decay of manly pluck. Thackeray. 4. The act of plucking, or the state of being plucked, at college. See Pluck, v. t., 4.
• BRACTLESS
  Destitute of bracts.
• BREATHE
  Etym: 1. To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. "I am in health, I breathe." Shak. Breathes there a man with soul so dead Sir W. Scott. 2. To take breath; to rest from action. Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again! Shak. 3.
• COUNTERBRACE
  To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another.
• UNDERBRED
  Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith.
• OPPROBRIOUS
  1. Expressive of opprobrium; attaching disgrace; reproachful; scurrilous; as, opprobrious language. They . . . vindicate themselves in terms no less opprobrious than those by which they are attacked. Addison. 2. Infamous; despised; rendered
• TECTIBRANCHIA
  See TECTIBRANCHIATA
• CREBRICOSTATE
  Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
• CAMBRIC
  1. A fine, thin, and white fabric made of flax or linen. He hath ribbons of all the colors i' the rainbow; . . . inkles, caddises, cambrics, lawns. Shak. 2. A fabric made, in imitation of linen cambric, of fine, hardspun cotton, often with figures
• MAKE AND BREAK
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• BRASIER; BRAZIER
  An artificer who works in brass. Franklin.
• SUBBRONCHIAL
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• TOOTHBRUSH
  A brush for cleaning the teeth.
• OVERBROW
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• CHICKEN-BREASTED
  Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column.
• NUDIBRANCHIATA
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