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pull to pieces

pull to pieces verb: to thoroughly refute something.

Verb

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

  1. (figuratively) To thoroughly refute something.
    • To stand consistently by his criticisms of theories of race would have been to pull to pieces his partisan teachings, and this he would not do.1897, John Mackinnon Robertson, The Saxon and the Celt: A Study in Sociology
    Synonyms:
    pick to pieces

Synonyms of pull to pieces

  • pick to pieces

Forms of pull to pieces

third-person singular presentpulls to pieces
present participlepulling to pieces
past participlepulled to pieces
pastpulled to pieces

Questions about pull to pieces

What does pull to pieces mean?
Pull to pieces means to thoroughly refute something.
What part of speech is pull to pieces?
Pull to pieces is a verb.
What is the past tense of pull to pieces?
The past tense of pull to pieces is pulled to pieces.

Words near pull to pieces in the dictionary

  1. pull the wool over someone's eyes
  2. pull through
  3. pull throughs
  4. pull time
  5. pull times
  6. pull to pieces
  7. pull to publish
  8. pull together
  9. pull tongues
  10. pull up
  11. pull up a chair

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