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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: move out or away; "The troops pulled out after the cease- fire" [syn: pull out, get out] [ant: draw in, get in, move in, pull in]
2: bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover; "draw a weapon"; "pull out a gun"; "The mugger pulled a knife on his victim" [syn: draw, pull, pull out, get out, take out]
3: remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense; "pull weeds"; "extract a bad tooth"; "take out a splinter"; "extract information from the telegram" [syn: extract, pull out, pull, pull up, take out, draw out]
4: remove oneself from an obligation; "He bowed out when he heard how much work was involved" [syn: chicken out, back off, pull out, back down, bow out]

Merriam Webster's

intransitive verb Date: 1855 1. leave, depart 2. withdraw

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. When a vehicle or driver pulls out, the vehicle moves out into the road or nearer the centre of the road. She pulled out into the street... He was about to pull out to overtake the guy in front of him. PHRASAL VERB: V P prep, V P 2. If you pull out of an agreement, a contest, or an organization, you withdraw from it. The World Bank should pull out of the project... A racing injury forced Stephen Roche to pull out. PHRASAL VERB: V P of n, V P 3. If troops pull out of a place or if their leader pulls them out, they leave it. The militia in Lebanon has agreed to pull out of Beirut... Economic sanctions will be lifted once two-thirds of their forces have pulled out... His government decided to pull its troops out of Cuba. PHRASAL VERB: V P of n, V P, V n P of n 4. If a country pulls out of recession or if someone pulls it out, it begins to recover from it. Sterling has been hit by the economy's failure to pull out of recession... What we want to see today are policies to pull us out of this recession. PHRASAL VERB: V P of n, V n P of n 5. see also pull-out

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

Extract, draw out.

Moby Thesaurus

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