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pulling
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun pulling has 1 sense
- pulling(n = noun.act) pull - the act of pulling; applying force to move something toward or with you; "the pull up the hill had him breathing harder"; "his strenuous pulling strained his back" is a kind of actuation, propulsion
has particulars: drag, draw, haul, haulage, jerk, tug, draft, draught, drawing, deracination, excision, extirpation, pluck, traction
Derived forms verb pull1, verb pull4
THESAURUS
pulling
adductive, alluring, attracting, attractive, attrahent, avulsion, compotation, cutting out, deracination, disentanglement, draft, dragging, drawing, drawing out, dredging, drilling, drinking, drunkenness, enucleation, eradication, evolvement, evulsion, excavation, excision, expression, exsection, extirpation, extraction, extrication, gulping, guzzling, hauling, imbibing, imbibition, lapping, magnetic, magnetized, mining, nipping, potation, pressing out, quaffing, quarrying, removal, ripping out, slipping, squeezing out, swigging, swilling, sympathetic, symposium, tasting, towing, tractive, tugging, unrooting, uprooting, withdrawal, wresting out
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