💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Pull up"
Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| haul upverb | (transitive) To confront or question one about one's wrongdoings. |
| straighten upverb | (intransitive) To sit up straight, to stop hunching. |
| deracinateverb | To pull up by the roots; to uproot; to extirpate. |
| uprootverb | (transitive) (figuratively) To remove (someone or something) from a familiar circumstance, especially suddenly and unwillingly. |
| root outverb | (transitive) To remove or abolish completely. |
| extirpateverb | (transitive) To destroy completely; to annihilate. |
| draw upverb | (transitive) To compose (a document), especially following a standard form; prepare a plan. |
| pull up a floorverb | (humorous, chiefly imperative) Sit down on a floor. |
| pull up a chairverb | (chiefly imperative) To sit down on a chair: to go from a non-seated position to sitting on a chair. |
| pull oververb | (idiomatic, intransitive, of a vehicle) To come to a stop, and turn off the road (i.e. onto the roadside or hard shoulder). |
| pull-upnoun | An exercise done for strengthening the arms and back in which one lifts one's own weight while hanging from a bar. Palms may be facing in any direction. |
| pull a leververb | (idiomatic, transitive) To vote. |
| drag upverb | To remind people of (something, usually unpleasant, from the past). |
| pull up onverb | (idiomatic, slang) To come to, visit. |
| pull a trainverb | Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pull, train. |
| fall upverb | To benefit in the long run from what seems initially to be a setback. |
| go upverb | (intransitive) To move upwards. |
| run upverb | To run (towards someone or something); to hasten to a destination. |
| send upverb | (transitive) To imitate (someone or something) for the purpose of satirical humour. |
| throw upverb | (intransitive, transitive, now informal, bacteriology) To vomit. |
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