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pulls down

pulls down is the third-person singular simple present indicative of pull down.

Meaning of pull down

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To make (something) lower (especially of clothes).
  2. (transitive) To demolish or destroy (a building etc.).
    • Bawd. But shall all our houses of resort in the Suburbs be puld downe?c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
  3. (transitive) To cause to fall to the floor
    • The home side got themselves in a mess again after 12 minutes when Victor Ruiz pulled down Ramires just outside the box. Lampard drilled a low free-kick past the wall but Diego Alves was down quickly to turn the ball away.2011 September 28, Jon Smith, “Valencia 1 - 1 Chelsea”, in BBC Sport

Questions about pulls down

What is pulls down the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Pulls down is the third-person singular simple present indicative of pull down.

Words near pulls down in the dictionary

  1. pulls at someone's heart strings
  2. pulls at someone's heartstrings
  3. pulls away
  4. pulls back
  5. pulls back the curtain
  6. pulls down
  7. pulls down a notch
  8. pulls down the curtain
  9. pulls faces
  10. pulls for
  11. pulls in

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pulls down (page history and authors); pull down (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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