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pull oneself together

pull oneself together verb: to become mentally focused after a period of being unfocused; to regain control of oneself.

Verb

pull oneself together (third-person singular simple present pulls oneself together, present participle pulling oneself together, simple past and past participle pulled oneself together)

  1. (idiomatic, reflexive) To become mentally focused after a period of being unfocused; to regain control of oneself
    • "Damn, damn, damnation!" he murmured, together with such other words as he had learnt from older men. Then he raised his hand to his forehead and said, "Oh, damn it all—" which meant something different. He pulled himself together. He drank a little tea, black and silent, that still survived upon...1910, E. M. Forster, chapter 6, in Howards End
    Synonyms:
    pull one's shit together

pull oneself together meaning in Malayalam

pull oneself together in Malayalam

get a grip on oneself, regain one's composure, recover
നിയന്ത്രണം വീണ്ടെടുക്കുക, ആത്മനിയന്ത്രണം പാലിക്കുക, സമനിലവീണ്ടെടുക്കുക, മനസ്സാന്നിദ്ധ്യം വീണ്ടെടുക്കുക, മനസ്ഥെെര്യം വീണ്ടെടുക്കുക, വികാരങ്ങൾ അടക്കുക

Synonyms of pull oneself together

  • pull one's shit together

Forms of pull oneself together

third-person singular presentpulls oneself together
present participlepulling oneself together
past participlepulled oneself together
pastpulled oneself together

Questions about pull oneself together

What does pull oneself together mean?
Pull oneself together means to become mentally focused after a period of being unfocused; to regain control of oneself.
What is pull oneself together in Malayalam?
Pull oneself together in Malayalam is നിയന്ത്രണം വീണ്ടെടുക്കുക, ആത്മനിയന്ത്രണം പാലിക്കുക, സമനിലവീണ്ടെടുക്കുക. See Pull oneself together meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is pull oneself together?
Pull oneself together is a verb.
What is the past tense of pull oneself together?
The past tense of pull oneself together is pulled oneself together.

Words near pull oneself together in the dictionary

  1. pull one's pud
  2. pull one's punches
  3. pull one's socks up
  4. pull one's weight
  5. pull oneself
  6. pull oneself together
  7. pull oneself up by one's bootstraps
  8. pull oneself up by one's own bootstraps
  9. pull out
  10. pull out all stops
  11. pull out all the stops

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pull oneself together (page history and authors); pull oneself together (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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