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pulled about

pulled about is the simple past and past participle of pull about.

Meaning of pull about

Verb

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

  1. (figuratively) To treat crudely, meanly or harshly.

Questions about pulled about

What is pulled about the simple past and past participle of?
Pulled about is the simple past and past participle of pull about.

Words near pulled about in the dictionary

  1. pulled a permit
  2. pulled a rabbit from a hat
  3. pulled a rabbit out of a hat
  4. pulled a sickie
  5. pulled a train
  6. pulled about
  7. pulled ahead
  8. pulled an all-nighter
  9. pulled apart
  10. pulled aside
  11. pulled at someone's heart strings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pulled about (page history and authors); pull about (page history and authors). 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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