| VERB | motion | pull up, draw up, haul up | come to a halt after driving somewhere |
|---|---|---|---|
| motion | pull up, draw up, straighten up | straighten oneself | |
| motion | pull up, draw up | cause (a vehicle) to stop | |
| contact | pull up, extract, pull out, pull, take out, draw out, rip out, tear out | remove, usually with some force or effort |
| Meaning | Come to a halt after driving somewhere. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s | |
| Synonyms | draw up, haul up | |
| Category | driving | The act of controlling and steering the movement of a vehicle or animal |
| Broader | stop, halt | Come to a halt, stop moving |
| Similar to | draw up, pull up | Cause (a vehicle) to stop |
| Meaning | straighten oneself. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody | |
| Synonyms | draw up, straighten up | |
| Broader | straighten | get up from a sitting or slouching position |
| Spanish | enderezarse, erguirse, estirarse, pararse | |
| Nouns | pull-up | an arm exercise performed by pulling yourself up on a horizontal bar until your chin is level with the bar |
| Meaning | Cause (a vehicle) to stop. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Synonym | draw up | |
| Category | driving | The act of controlling and steering the movement of a vehicle or animal |
| Broader | stop | Cause to stop |
| Similar to | draw up, pull up, haul up | Come to a halt after driving somewhere |
| Spanish | pararse | |
| Meaning | Remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something; Somebody ----s something PP | |
| Synonyms | extract, pull out, pull, take out, draw out, rip out, tear out | |
| Narrower | demodulate | extract information from a modulated carrier wave |
| thread | Remove facial hair by tying a fine string around it and pulling at the string | |
| wring out, squeeze out | extract (liquid) by squeezing or pressing | |
| Broader | remove, take, take away, withdraw | Remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract |
| See also | pull | cause to move by pulling |
| Similar to | draw, pull, pull out, get out, take out | Bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover |
| Spanish | extraer, sacar | |
| Catalan | extreure | |
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