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pulling on

pulling on is the present participle and gerund of pull on.

Meaning of pull on

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To put on (clothes) by tugging.
    • I pulled on my winter coat before stepping out into the snow.

Questions about pulling on

What is pulling on the present participle and gerund of?
Pulling on is the present participle and gerund of pull on.

Words near pulling on in the dictionary

  1. pulling in
  2. pulling in one's horns
  3. pulling into
  4. pulling my finger
  5. pulling off
  6. pulling on
  7. pulling one over
  8. pulling one's finger out
  9. pulling one's finger out of one's arse
  10. pulling one's hair out
  11. pulling one's head in

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pulling on (page history and authors); pull on (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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