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pulled in

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

Meaning of pull in

Verb

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

  1. (literally, transitive) To pull something, so that it comes inside.
    • After falling out of the boat, the crew pulled him in.
  2. (idiomatic, intransitive) To approach or drive up to a place and come to a stop; to park by driving frontways into a parking spot.
    • A car just pulled in our driveway.
  3. (idiomatic, intransitive) To approach a station; to arrive at a station.
    • Quick! The train's pulling in.
  4. (idiomatic, transitive) To arrest someone; to take someone to a police station because they may have done something.
    • She was pulled in for questioning.
  5. (idiomatic, transitive) To earn [money].
    • He pulls in a lot of money.
  6. (idiomatic, transitive) To tighten a sail by pulling on a rope.
    • pull in the main sheet

Questions about pulled in

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

Words near pulled in in the dictionary

  1. pulled down
  2. pulled down a notch
  3. pulled down the curtain
  4. pulled faces
  5. pulled for
  6. pulled in
  7. pulled in one's horns
  8. pulled into
  9. pulled my finger
  10. pulled off
  11. pulled on

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