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pull the fire alarm

pull the fire alarm verb: to cause the fire alarm to go off, by pulling the lever on the fire alarm pull station.

Verb

pull the fire alarm (third-person singular simple present pulls the fire alarm, present participle pulling the fire alarm, simple past and past participle pulled the fire alarm)

  1. To cause the fire alarm to go off, by pulling the lever on the fire alarm pull station.

Forms of pull the fire alarm

third-person singular presentpulls the fire alarm
present participlepulling the fire alarm
past participlepulled the fire alarm
pastpulled the fire alarm

Questions about pull the fire alarm

What does pull the fire alarm mean?
Pull the fire alarm means to cause the fire alarm to go off, by pulling the lever on the fire alarm pull station.
What part of speech is pull the fire alarm?
Pull the fire alarm is a verb.
What is the past tense of pull the fire alarm?
The past tense of pull the fire alarm is pulled the fire alarm.

Words near pull the fire alarm in the dictionary

  1. pull stations
  2. pull strings
  3. pull teeth
  4. pull the devil by the tail
  5. pull the fat out of the fire
  6. pull the fire alarm
  7. pull the football
  8. pull the ladder up after oneself
  9. pull the ladder up behind oneself
  10. pull the long bow
  11. pull the other leg

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