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| NOUN: | 1. Informal. The power or quality of attracting: allure, allurement, appeal, attraction, attractiveness, call, charisma, charm, draw, enchantment, enticement, fascination, glamour, lure, magnetism, witchery. See LIKE. 2. An act of drinking or the amount swallowed: draft, drink, potation, quaff, sip, sup, swill. Informal : swig. Slang : belt. See MOUTH. 3. Slang. The power to produce an effect by indirect means: influence, leverage, sway, weight. Informal : clout. See AFFECT. 4. An inhalation, as of a cigar, pipe, or cigarette: drag, draw, puff. Slang : hit. See BREATH. 5. The act of drawing or pulling a load: draft, drag, draw, haul, traction. See PUSH. | | VERB: | 1. Informal. To direct or impel to oneself by some quality or action: allure, appeal, attract, draw, entice, lure, magnetize, take. See LIKE. 2. To exert force so as to move (something) toward the source of the force: drag, draw, haul, tow, tug. See PUSH. 3. To remove from a fixed position: extract, pluck, tear1. See PUT IN. | | PHRASAL VERB: | pull back To move back in the face of enemy attack or after a defeat: draw back, fall back, pull out, retire, retreat, withdraw. Idioms: beat a retreat, give ground (or way) . See FORWARD. pull down 1. To pull down or break up so that reconstruction is impossible: demolish, destroy, dismantle, dynamite, knock down, level, pulverize, raze, tear down, wreck. Aerospace : destruct. See HELP. 2. Informal. To receive, as wages, for one's labor: earn, gain, get, make, win. Idioms: earn (or make) a living, earn one's keep. See GIVE, MONEY. pull in 1. To come to a particular place: arrive, check in, get in, reach, show up, turn up. Slang : blow in. Idioms: make (or put in) an appearance. See START. 2. To control, restrict, or arrest: bit2, brake, bridle, check, constrain, curb, hold, hold back, hold down, hold in, inhibit, keep, keep back, rein (back, in, or up), restrain. See RESTRAINT. pull off 1. Informal. To be responsible for or guilty of (an error or crime): commit, perpetrate. See DO, LAW. 2. Informal. To begin and carry through to completion: do, execute, perform, prosecute. See DO. pull on 1. To put (an article of clothing) on one's person: assume, don, get on, put on, slip into, slip on. See PUT ON. 2. To take into the mouth and swallow (a liquid): drink, imbibe, quaff, sip, sup. Informal : swig, toss down or (off). Slang : belt. Idioms: wet one's whistle. See MOUTH. pull out 1. To move or proceed away from a place: depart, exit, get away, get off, go, go away, leave1, quit, retire, run (along), withdraw. Informal : cut out, push off, shove off. Slang : blow1, split, take off. Idioms: hit the road, take leave. See APPROACH. 2. To move back in the face of enemy attack or after a defeat: draw back, fall back, pull back, retire, retreat, withdraw. Idioms: beat a retreat, give ground (or way) . See FORWARD. pull through To exist in spite of adversity: come through, last2, persist, ride out, survive, weather. See LIVE.
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