PULLED Synonyms: 64 Similar and Opposite Words

pulled

verb

Definition of pulled

past tense of pull

as in hauled

to cause to follow by applying steady force on a team of horses pulling a heavy wagon

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as in yanked

to draw out by force or with effort the dentist had to struggle to pull the tooth

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as in stretched

to injure by overuse, misuse, or pressure lift the crate carefully, or you'll pull a muscle

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Recent Examples of pulled Abu Dhabi’s Etihad is taking the same muscular approach, adding more than 20 aircraft and new routes to Europe, Africa, and China as other long-haul carriers have pulled back. — semafor.com, 16 Sep. 2026 Later, detectives produced three male DNA profiles from evidence collected at the scene, including some pulled from beer bottles and cigarette butts, but none were ever matched to anyone until recently. — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2026 However, Brighton got into the game and were the more threatening throughout as United continued to make errors as Charalampos Kostoulas pulled one back before half-time. — Chris McKenna, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2026 In 2025, Kehlani was pulled from two separate performances, one at Cornell University and the other at New York’s SummerStage, over her public support of the Palestinian people. — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 16 Sep. 2026 Steinbach initally wrote a commentary script to accompany the images, but cut it after a filmmaker friend said the voiceover pulled them out of the movie. — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 16 Sep. 2026 The collection has since been pulled extensively by stylists for magazine covers and red-carpet appearances, giving its relatively small body of work an unusually long afterlife. — Luke Leitch, Vogue, 16 Sep. 2026 As for material, the blue and red variants have been made from polished anodized aluminum, which allows Hublot to nail the exact vibrant hue pulled from Koons’ artwork. — Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 16 Sep. 2026 Villegas González, 38, had just dropped off his children at daycare last September and was on his way to work when ICE agents pulled him over. — Olivia Olander, Chicago Tribune, 16 Sep. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for pulled

Verb

Occasionally something is hauled up in a plastic bucket, but Willett never cares to look.

— Jeff Goodell, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2026
The slide was later pulled off of the plane and hauled away on the back of a pick-up truck before the plane took off for Dallas.

— Isabella Murray, ABC News, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of hauled

Verb

Hours later, as the couple sat in a car outside a west Fort Worth bowling alley, an unknown man yanked open the passenger door.

— Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Sep. 2026
In one clip, a pair of people sit in a small box attached to a wire as they're yanked onto a platform across a river in Nuwakot, Nepal.

— Robert McGreevy, FOXNews.com, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of yanked

Verb

While the main festival was in Grant Park, entry locations for riders stretched all the way to the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry on the South Side.

— Finnegan Belleau, Chicago Tribune, 6 Sep. 2026
But as hours stretched into days with no word from them, his hope turned to sorrow.

— Faith Karimi, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2026

Definition of stretched

Verb

While hunting for his missing wife, Marissa, Hale is dragged through an escalating nightmare of environments that loop, warp and rebuild themselves from his own memories and trauma.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 11 Sep. 2026
At that point, six men dressed in black and wearing masks emerged from their vehicles, dragged the Chetals from their car and led them to the van, where Chetal’s father was beaten with a metal baseball bat, breaking his arm.

— Jesse Hyde, Rolling Stone, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of dragged

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Sub-agents then went through code repositories and extracted credentials like passwords and tokens that developers had left, written directly into the company’s software.

— J.D. Capelouto, semafor.com, 16 Sep. 2026
Egg freezing is a process in which unfertilized egg cells are extracted, frozen and stored to preserve fertility, which has become more popular among women who want to have children later in life.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2026