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Pull out   /pʊl aʊt/   Listen
Pull out

verb
1.
Move out or away.  Synonym: get out.
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



... the room. Every eye was fixed upon her; it was the most cruel moment of her life. Even Jackie flushed hotly, turned away, and began to pull out all the blades of a new pocket-knife someone ...
— A Pair of Clogs • Amy Walton

... to deface his tomb (wherein with him, saith one, was buried all English men's good fortune in France) used these indeed princely words: 'What honour shall it be to us, or you, to break this monument, and to pull out of the ground the bones of HIM, whom, in his life time, neither my father nor your progenitors, with all their puissance, were once able to make flie a foot backwarde? who, by his strength, policy and wit kept them all out of the principal dominions of France, and ...
— A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One • Thomas Frognall Dibdin

... alike they would most surely marry. But life, that wisely and for posterity's sake mates not the like but the unlike, brought Jerry Dustin on the scene,—good, practical, stay-at-home Jerry Dustin. And the girl who used to sit with Tony on the station bench and watch the trains pull out into the wide big world left her childhood friend sitting alone and went to Jerry, answered his smile ...
— Green Valley • Katharine Reynolds

... not the worst scrape we have been in, by any means. We'll pull out of this, with our usual ...
— Frank Merriwell's Bravery • Burt L. Standish

... such was his rage at the cause of Christ and his people, that before they escaped his hands, he would charge them with what in his conscience he knew was false: and, if they would not answer questions to his mind, he would threaten to pull out their tongues with pincers. At the same time pleaded that murderers, sorcerers, &c. might go free. In one of his distracted fits, he took the Bible in his hand and wickedly said, it would never be well with the land ...
— Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) • John Howie


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