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Definition of Pull out

1. Verb. Move out or away. "The troops pulled out after the cease-fire"

2. Verb. Bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover. "The mugger pulled a knife on his victim"

3. Verb. Remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense. "Extract information from the telegram"

4. Verb. Remove oneself from an obligation. "He bowed out when he heard how much work was involved"

Definition of Pull out

1. Verb. (idiomatic) To withdraw; especially of military forces; to retreat. ¹

2. Verb. (literally) To use coitus interruptus as a method of birth control. ¹

3. Verb. (idiomatic) To remove something from a container. ¹

4. Verb. (idiomatic) To maneuver a vehicle from the side of a road onto the lane. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pull Out

pull from the fire pull in pull in one's horns pull my finger pull off pull on pull one's finger out pull one's head in pull one's own weight pull one's punches

pull one's socks up pull one's weight pull oneself together pull oneself up by one's bootstraps pull out all the stops pull out of the fire pull out of the hat pull over pull punches pull quote

pull quotes pull rank pull round pull somebody's leg pull someone's bacon out of the fire pull someone's chestnuts out of the fire pull someone's fat out of the fire

Literary usage of Pull out

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Gentleman's Magazine (1808)
"... anil musketry from tho enemy, till such time as they could pull out of the reach of it. 'I am happy tu add, that tlie loss of the troops in this exposed ..."

2. A Treatise on Concrete, Plain and Reinforced: Materials, Construction, and by Frederick Winslow Taylor, Sanford Eleazer Thompson, René Feret, William Barnard Fuller, Frank Pape McKibben, Spencer Baird Newberry (1916)
"The pull-out tests are treated separately from the bond tests in beams ... PULL-OUT TESTS Pull-out test specimens consist of bars imbedded in blocks. ..."

3. A Compendious Anglo-Saxon and English Dictionary by Joseph Bosworth (1848)
"... To put out of an enclosure, to expose, cast out, separate, pull out, take away, root up. ... To pull out. ..."

4. Pagan Races of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat, Charles Otto Blagden (1906)
"To pull ; to drag ; to pull out ; to pluck out ; to snatch : making (mking), Sem. Buk. Max. To pull ; to drag: ting, Sem. Pa. Max. To pull out ; to pluck ..."

5. Sermons and Discourses by Thomas Chalmers (1852)
"Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye ; and behold a beam is in thine own eye ?—Thou hypocrite ! first cast out the beam out of thine own eye, ..."

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