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(v)
(transitive) To pull something sharply; to pull something out
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(n)
A movement that twists or pulls violently; a tug.
(idiomatic, transitive) To attract.
A drop of clear, salty liquid produced from the eyes by crying or irritation.
A twisting force.
(transitive) To separate into parts with force or sudden violence; to split; to burst.
(intransitive) To break apart; to split.
(idiomatic, transitive) To remove something from a container.
To remove.
(intransitive) To leave or escape.
(transitive) To strip of feathers or plumage.
(transitive) To deplume; to strip of feathers.
To deprive of feathers or plumes.
To stretch too far.
(transitive, ditransitive) To retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get.
Ability to influence; strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigour; might; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect.
To operate a vehicle:
(transitive) To be guilty of, or responsible for a crime etc; to commit.
(countable) A small quantity of gas or smoke in the air.
(transitive) To draw by moral, emotional or sexual influence; to engage or fix, as the mind, attention, etc.; to invite or allure.
(transitive) To do (something bad); to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
(physics, uncountable) Resistance of a fluid to something moving through it.
(transitive, intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) such that it moves away from the person or thing applying the force.
An instance of applying pressure; an instance of pressing.
(transitive) To pull or drag with great effort.
A maneuver which rotates an object end over end.
(ambitransitive) To raise or rise.
(transitive) To pull (something) with a quick, strong action.
(ergative) To (cause to) move in continuous contact with a surface.
(transitive) To apply pressure to from two or more sides at once.
(transitive) To hurl; to release (an object) with some force from one’s hands, an apparatus, etc. so that it moves rapidly through the air.
To raise something or someone to a higher physical, social, moral, intellectual, spiritual or emotional level.
(intransitive) To change place or posture; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to another.
Grip.
The condition of being held in a state between two or more forces, which are acting in opposition to each other.
Something that is extracted or drawn out.
The act of extracting or the condition of being extracted.
(adj)
Capable of being stretched; ductile.
(intransitive) To do things quickly.
(transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
That withdraws natural resources by extraction
(transitive) To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing).
A long walk, usually for pleasure or exercise.
(transitive) To make tighter.
An instance where something splits.
(transitive) To lengthen by pulling.
(transitive) To transport by drawing or pulling, as with horses or oxen, or a motor vehicle.
(physical) To cause to rise; to lift or elevate.
An act of hitting; a blow, a hit.
Toward the back or rear of something.
The act of declining or refusing something.
(intransitive) To peer closely and curiously, especially at something closed or not public.
(intransitive) To produce an air current.
(transitive) To take apart from; to take off.
Away, having left.
removal
(transitive) To delete.
A humming noise from something moving very fast.
(transitive) To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else without intending to return it.
(transitive) To disconnect from a supply, especially an electrical socket.
A call to act; encouragement to act, often in an illegal way.
(intransitive) To cease moving.
(transitive) To throw out or remove forcefully.
The process of removing or the fact of being removed.
(transitive) To free, disengage, loosen, or untangle.
To reverse the effects of an action.
(transitive) To sever or interrupt a connection.
(transitive) To help keep from falling.
A withdrawal, especially of armed forces.
(transitive) To engross or hold the attention of; to keep busy or occupied.
(transitive) To pull (something) back or back inside.
The act or result of pulling back; a withdrawal.
(transitive) To draw or pull (something) away or back from its original position or situation.
(transitive or ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire.
(transitive) To let loose, to free from restraints.
withdrawal
(chiefly transitive) To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
(software) The distribution, either public or private, of an initial or new and upgraded version of a computer software product.
dismissed, terminated from employment.
To physically place (something or someone somewhere).
(transitive) To get hold of; to gain possession of, to procure; to acquire, in any way.
(usually followed by of) Released from obligation, penalty, etc; free, clear, or rid.
A type of metabolic shock the body undergoes when a substance (such as a drug) on which a patient is dependent is withheld.
(transitive, ditransitive) To transport toward somebody/somewhere.
The act of retrieving or something retrieved.
(transitive) To cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing.
(transitive) To create.
(adv)
From a place, hence.
Away from the inside or centre.
(intransitive) To stop working on a permanent basis, usually because of old age or illness.
(transitive) To regain or get back something.
Something that deters.
Tired, weary.
(intransitive) To act in a manner such that one has fun; to engage in activities expressly for the purpose of recreation or entertainment.