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Pull out   /pʊl aʊt/   Listen
Pull out

verb
1.
Move out or away.  Synonym: get out.  Antonym: pull in.
2.
Bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover.  Synonyms: draw, get out, pull, take out.  "Pull out a gun" , "The mugger pulled a knife on his victim"
3.
Remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense.  Synonyms: draw out, extract, pull, pull up, take out.  "Extract a bad tooth" , "Take out a splinter" , "Extract information from the telegram"
4.
Remove oneself from an obligation.  Synonyms: back down, back off, bow out, chicken out.



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"Pull out" Quotes from Famous Books



... have any misgivings about it being done," said Mickey. "It's being done every day. I know men, hundreds of them, just scraping, and slaving and half starving to get together the dough to pull out. I hear it on the cars, on the streets, and see it in the papers. They're jumping their jobs and going every day, while hundreds of Schmeltzenschimmers, O'Laughertys, Hansons, and Pietros are coming in to take their places. Multiopolis is more than ...
— Michael O'Halloran • Gene Stratton-Porter

... is inverted, and the cloth put over, neatly folded, and fastened with a tack at the corners, and another in the middle. The tack is crowed in about two-thirds of its length, it then presents the head convenient to pull out. If the bees are to go a great distance, and require to be shut up several days, the muslin will be hardly sufficient, as they would probably bite their way out. Something more substantial would then be required. Take ...
— Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained • M. Quinby

... them in the grave, throw in beads, 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 abandoned. The wailing, talks, &c., were in their own jargon; none else could understand, and ...
— A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians • H.C. Yarrow

... Phoebe's so helpless a maiden as ever made a picksher. I mind her at school in the days when we was childer together. Purty as them china figures you might buy off Cheap Jack, an' just so tender. She'd come up to dinky gals no bigger 'n herself an' pull out her li'l handkercher an' ax 'em to be so kind as to blaw her nose for her! Now Will's gone, Lard ...
— Children of the Mist • Eden Phillpotts

... and pull out to sea for your life, Nicholls. It is the dear old Cloud, as I am a living sinner! and Miss Stanhope is on the poop watching the island through the ship's glass. There ...
— The Missing Merchantman • Harry Collingwood


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