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PULL DOWN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pull down mean? 

PULL DOWN (verb)
  The verb PULL DOWN has 2 senses:

1. tear down so as to make flat with the groundplay

2. cause to come or go downplay

  Familiarity information: PULL DOWN used as a verb is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PULL DOWN (verb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Tear down so as to make flat with the ground

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

dismantle; level; pull down; rase; raze; take down; tear down

Context example:

The building was levelled

Hypernyms (to "pull down" is one way to...):

destroy; destruct (do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pull down"):

bulldoze (flatten with or as if with a bulldozer)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something


Sense 2

Meaning:

Cause to come or go down

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

cut down; down; knock down; pull down; push down

Context example:

The mugger knocked down the old lady after she refused to hand over her wallet

Hypernyms (to "pull down" is one way to...):

strike (deliver a sharp blow, as with the hand, fist, or weapon)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pull down"):

submarine (bring down with a blow to the legs)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something


 Context examples 


Well, if you were to pull down a bell-rope, Watson, where would you expect it to break?

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You pull down, you despoil; but they build up, they restore.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This was sufficient to fling the whole pack forward, pell-mell, crowded together, blocked and confused by its eagerness to pull down the prey.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

All round this they had cleared a wide space, and then the thing was completed by a paling six feet high, without door or opening, too strong to pull down without time and labour and too open to shelter the besiegers.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)



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