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pulls round

pulls round is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 pulls round

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

Words near pulls round in the dictionary

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

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