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pulls stakes
phrase
variants:
or pulls up stakes
present tense third-person singular of pull stakes
Synonyms & Antonyms of pulls stakes
to leave a place often for another
- Once the job was done it was time to pull stakes.
Synonyms for pulls stakes
- bails,
- bails out,
- books
- [slang],
- buggers off
- [British slang],
- bugs off,
- bugs out,
- buzzes (off),
- clears off
- [chiefly British],
- clears out,
- cuts out,
- departs,
- digs out,
- exits,
- gets,
- gets off,
- goes,
- goes off,
- moves,
- packs (up or off),
- parts,
- peels off,
- pikes (out or off),
- pulls out,
- pushes off,
- pushes on,
- quits,
- runs along,
- sallies (forth),
- scarpers
- [British],
- shoves (off),
- steps (along),
- takes off,
- vamooses,
- walks out
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“Pulls stakes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pulls%20stakes. Accessed 28 Jan. 2022.
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