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[ verb ] as of vehicles or their riders

Synonyms

haul_up draw_up

Examples

"The Rolls pulled up on pour front lawn" "The chauffeur hauled up in front of us"

Used in print

(Jane Gilmore Rushing, "Against the Moon,"...)

One afternoon , as the women sat clucking softly , a new carload of people pulled_up at the gate .

(Richard Ferber, Bitter Valley....)

That afternoon when they had pulled_up in_front_of the broken-down ranch_house , his hopes had been high .

Related terms

stop driving draw_up

2
[ verb ] straighten oneself

Examples

"He drew himself up when he talked to his superior"

Used in print

(Helen Hooven Santmyer, "There Were Fences"...)

Once , then - for how many years or how few does not matter - my world was bound round by fences , when I was too small to reach the apple_tree bough , to twist my knee over it and pull myself up .

Related terms

rise chin-up

3
[ verb ] draw or pull out, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense

Examples

"pull weeds" "extract a bad tooth" "take out a splinter" "extract information from the telegram"

4
[ verb ] cause to stop; as of vehicles

Synonyms

draw_up

Examples

"He pulled up the car in front of the hotel"

Related terms

stop driving draw_up

5
[ verb ] pull up by or as if by the roots

Examples

"uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden"

Related terms

move deracination

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