PULLS AWAY Synonyms: 39 Similar and Opposite Words

pulls away

verb

present tense third-person singular of pull away

as in detaches

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Nepali officials have said the floods were likely unleashed by a glacial collapse, which is when a large piece of ice, rock and debris suddenly detaches from a glacier on a mountain.

— Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 27 Aug. 2026
Protium detaches first at low temperatures, followed by deuterium, while tritium holds on the longest and requires the highest heat to release.

— Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of detaches

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Talent rarely disengages overnight, burnout does not strike out of nowhere and organizational trust does not vanish over a single meeting.

— Natalie Grabher, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2026
Those are responsible for starting the diesel engines, which can be divorced via a lever that engages and disengages the inboard steering clutches.

— Caleb Jacobs, The Drive, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of disengages

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Cora, the granddaughter of a woman kidnapped from West Africa and sold into slavery, flees her captor’s plantation, plunging her into the book’s alternate steampunk reality where she is pursued by the merciless slave catcher Ridgeway.

— David Faris, TheWeek, 16 Sep. 2026
As the dust settles, John flees, but Zoe comes with a gun to finish off Hal in the rubble.

— Joe Otterson, Variety, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of flees

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In this technique the GPU renders a game at a resolution higher than the one being displayed and then shrinks the image to the target resolution.

— Aman Kumar, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Sep. 2026
Higher utility prices mean higher production costs, which in turn lead to higher prices for the end customer and fuel inflation—a force that ultimately shrinks all of our wallets.

— Adrian Stelmach, Forbes.com, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of shrinks

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The video is analyzed for quality—Birdbuddy looks for clips with good poses and exposure, pulls out a few still images from the video, and sends it to the app as a Postcard.

— Jim Fisher, PC Magazine, 27 Sep. 2026
Then Indiana Jones looks at him, sighs, pulls out a gun and just shoots him.

— Jim Bowden, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of pulls out

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Warner flinches not about a birthday that is often associated with the beginning of decline.

— Dan Pompei, New York Times, 21 July 2026
Advertisement Throughout the narrative, Johnson never flinches in his portrayal of the wreck, unleashing footage of investigators approaching the car and the victims’ families.

— Jake King-Schreifels, Time, 15 May 2026

Definition of flinches

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