Pull Away

Definition: Pull Away

Pull Away

Verb

1. Pull back or move away or backward; "The enemy withdrew"; "The limo pulled away from the curb".

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Synonyms: Pull Away

Crosswords: Pull Away

If Reinhart has anti-gravity strong enough to hold us here, I figure he's got enough to pull away. (The Black Hole; writing credit: Jeb Rosebrook; Bob Barbash)

I know I have to pull away (Don't Say Goodbye; performing artist: Paulina Rubio)

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USS Birmingham (CL-62), at left, and a destroyer pull away from USS Princeton (CVL-23) following the big explosion that destroyed the carrier's stern at about 1523 hrs. on 24 October 1944. This blast killed over two hundred men aboard Birmingham, which was alongside Princeton fighting fires. Note the light smoke over Birmingham's midships and stern areas. Princeton's stern, and a good deal of her after superstructure, has been blown off. Credit: NAVY.

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Pearl laughed, and attempted to pull away her hand

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Health

In periodontitis, plaque builds and hardens under the gums. The gums pull away from the teeth, forming "pockets" of infection. (references)

Shrinking of the vitreous usually causes the hole. As a person ages, the vitreous becomes thicker and stringier and begins to pull away from the retina. (references)

Economic History

Hungary

As Hungary began to pull away from the Soviet orbit, the United States offered assistance and expertise to help establish a constitution, a democratic political system, and a plan for a free market economy. (references)

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Expressions using "pull away": pull away at ♦ pull away from smb. ♦ pull away from the kerb. Additional references.

Arabic 

‏إنطلق (career, dash, get away, go, lick, push off, scud, set out, shove off, split, spout, spring, spurt, start, start off, start out, take out, tee off, waft), ‏إبتعد (distance, feel one's way, give a wide berth, go away, keep away, recede, roll away, stand, subside, sweep). (various references)

Basque

kendu (pull away to, substract to, take to, tear away to). (various references)

Bulgarian 

тръгвам (depart, drive off, get along, get going, get off, leave, pull off, put, put forth, sally, set forth, set off, set on, set out, shove off, start, wend, wend one's way), оттеглям (back down, countermand, detach, haul off, retire, retract, retreat, withdraw), откъсвам се (break away, calve, fly off the handle, prescind, pull ahead, tear oneself away), отивам си (be off, buzz, clear off, exit, get away, go, go away, go off, leave, off it, part, pass, piss off, pop off, push along, quit, remove, run along, sheer off, shunt, take off, walk away), отивам напред (pull ahead), отдръпвам (draw back, pull back, withdraw), дръпвам (hitch, jerk, pull, pull at, pull down, pull in, retract, strike, suck at, tug, tweak, twitch, withdraw). (various references)

French

s'ébranler (pull out), démarrer (pull off, put off). (various references)

German

wegziehen (draw back, migrate, move, move away, whip away, whip off). (various references)

Greek 

απομακρύνομαι (depart, diverge, draw away, fend off, move off, pull away from, stand off), τραβιέμαι (be drawn, be pulled). (various references)

Hungarian

széthúz (to draw aside, to haul, to pull away, undraw), elhúz (spin out, to book, to pill, to pull away, to spin out), elevez (to pull away, to pull off, to pull out). (various references)

Italian

partire (absent, absent onself, depart, go, go away, leave, leaving, run, set off, start, start off, start out, steam away, take off, troop away, troop off), strappare via. (various references)

Manx

tayrn voish. (various references)

Occitan

desrasigar (tear away), arrancar (tear away). (various references)

Pig Latin

ullpay awayay.(various references)

Spanish

arrancar (abstract, blow away, draw, draw out, extort, extract, grub up, pick, pluck, pluck off, prise off, prize off, pull, pull off, pull out, pull up, put on, rip off, rip out, root up, start, start running, switch on, take away, tear, tear away, tear down, tear off, tear out, tear up, turn on, weed, win, wrest, wring). (various references)

Swedish

dra sig ur (cry off, declare off, drop out), dra bort (distract, draw away, go away, pull off). (various references)

Turkish

sıyrılmak (be grazed, dodge, elude, graze, shed, Slough, squirm out of, wriggle, wriggle oneself out of, wriggle out), kalkmak (arise, get a hard on, get up, have a hard on, leave, lift, lift off, pull, pull away from the kerb, rise, stand on, stand up, stand upon, start, straighten, straighten up, take off), ayrılmak (apostatize, be off, be through with, break away, break up, break with, check out, come unstuck, cut loose, decamp, defect, depart, desert, deviate, disunite, divaricate, diverge, divide, divorce, divorce from, draw apart, draw away, drop out, fork, furcate, get clear of, get off, give up, graduate, hive off, lead away from, leave, mosey, move off, part, part company, part company with, part from, part with, pull out, quit, retire, revolt, revolt from, secede, segregate, separate, sever, splinter off, split, split off, split up, stray, sunder, take one's farewell of, tear oneself away, unstuck, vacate, walk off, walk out, walk out of, withdraw), çekmek (abide, absorb, arrest, attract, be a sufferer by, be a sufferer from, be cursed with smth., bear, bear with, captivate, carry, catch, charm, claw, conjugate, decline, drag, draw, draw off, draw on, draw out, dwindle, engage, engross, extract, fetch, glamor, glamour, go through, go to scale at, grind, grip, haul, heave, hitch, hoist, hold, inflect, inhale, invite, last out, lug, lump, magnetize, pass through, pique, pluck, prepossess, pull, pull over, pull up, receive, record, run up, scale in, scale out, schlep, schlepp, shoot, shrink, sip, siphon, siphon off, soak, soak in, sop up, stand the racket, stretch, suck, suffer, sustain, syphon, syphon off, take, take after, take one's medicine, throw back, toss, tow, tow away, tug, turn the scale at, undergo, up with, whisk, withdraw), çekip ayırmak (draw away). (various references)

Ukrainian

відривати (avulse, break away, disinter, tear away, tear off). (various references)

detracta, detractaque, detractos, detraham, detrahas, detrahat, detrahe, detrahebant, detrahent, detrahentem, detrahentes, detrahentia, detrahentur, detrahere, detraherent, detraheret, detraheris, detrahes, detrahet, detrahetur, detrahit, detrahunt, detraxerint, detraxero, detraxerunt, detraxeruntque, detraxi, detraxisti, detraxistis, detraxit. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: allay, alula, alway, layup, pally, playa, walla, wally.

-4 letters: ally, away, pall, paly, pawl, play, pula, pull, wall, waly, waul, yaup, yawl, yawp.

-5 letters: aal, ala, all, alp, awa, awl, lap, law, lay, pal, paw, pay, ply, pul, pya, wap, way, yap, yaw, yup.