Meaning

1 senses
  1. (idiomatic)To save from impending failure, destruction, or defeat.

Examples

8 sentences
  1. Tom pulled out a gun and started firing.

  2. Tom pulled the fire alarm.

    deTom löste den Feueralarm aus. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  3. I pulled out my gun and fired.

  4. I pulled the fire alarm.

  5. She acted fast to pull the fire alarm when she saw the flames grow.

Translations

1 languages

Forms

pulls out of the fire, pulling out of the fire, pulled out of the fire, pulled out of the fire
Base formpull out of the fire · to pull out of the fire
3rd person singularpulls out of the fire
Present participlepulling out of the fire
Past simplepulled out of the fire
Past participlepulled out of the fire

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theypull out of the fire
he, she, itpulls out of the fire

Past simpleLesson

all personspulled out of the fire

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave pulled out of the fire
he, she, ithas pulled out of the fire

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill pull out of the fire

Synonyms

3 synonyms

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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