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pulled round

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

Meaning of pull round

Verb

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

  1. To recover; to return to normal.
    • There could be no doubt in my mind that all this had taken place the previous evening – for one thing, I should have been a great deal hungrier even than I was had it been longer ago. Very well, what was this, then? Had the whole hospital, the whole city made such a night of it that they'd not...1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 14

Questions about pulled round

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

Words near pulled round in the dictionary

  1. pulled out of the hat
  2. pulled over
  3. pulled pork
  4. pulled punches
  5. pulled rank
  6. pulled round
  7. pulled short
  8. pulled short up
  9. pulled someone down a peg
  10. pulled someone over the coals
  11. pulled someone's bacon out of the fire

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