Meaning

5 senses
  1. (transitive)To remove by pulling.

    Pull off old blossoms so that the plant will keep flowering.

    As soon as she got home, she pulled off her clothes.

    abzupfen, wegziehen, ausziehen

    оттащитьottaščitʹ, стянутьstjanutʹ

    remove by drawing or pulling

  2. (idiomatic, transitive)To achieve, accomplish, succeed at (something difficult).

    to pull off a heist

    Six pages is a lot to write in one night. Do you think she can pull it off?

    hinkriegen, durchziehen

    добитьсяdobitʹsja, смочьsmočʹ

    be successful; achieve a goal

  3. (ambitransitive)To turn off (a road onto the side of the road, or onto another road).

    (transitive) After about a mile, we pulled off the main road onto a dirt track.

    (intransitive) I think the car is overheating – we'd better pull off .

    abbiegen, herunterfahren, an den Straßenrand fahren

    съехатьsʺjexatʹ

  4. (intransitive)To begin moving and then move away; to pull away.

    As the police approached, the car pulled off and sped away into the distance.

    anziehen, wegziehen

  5. (reflexive, slang, transitive, usually, vulgar)To masturbate manually.

    sich einen runterholen

Examples

159 sentences
  1. Tom pulled off his shoes.

    Том зняв взуття.

    ruТом снял туфли.

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  2. How did you pull that off?

    ruКак ты этого добился?

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  3. How did Tom pull that off?

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  4. Tom pulled the ring off his finger.

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  5. We can't pull this off without Tom.

    ruНам не удастся это без Тома.

    deOhne Tom können wir das hier nicht zum Erfolg führen.

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 3
To remove by pulling:
To achieve; to succeed at (something difficult):
To turn off (a road):
Deutsch
By meaning 5
To remove by pulling:
To achieve; to succeed at (something difficult):
To turn off (a road):
To begin moving and then move away:
To masturbate:

Forms

pulls off, pulling off, pulled off, pulled off
Base formpull off · to pull off
3rd person singularpulls off
Present participlepulling off
Past simplepulled off
Past participlepulled off

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theypull off
he, she, itpulls off

Past simpleLesson

all personspulled off

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave pulled off
he, she, ithas pulled off

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill pull off

Phrasal verbs

16 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

48 synonyms

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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