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pulling round

pulling round is the present participle and gerund 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 pulling round

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

Words near pulling round in the dictionary

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

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