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repull

repull verb: to pull again.

Verb

repull (third-person singular simple present repulls, present participle repulling, simple past and past participle repulled)

  1. (transitive) To pull again.
    • Castings that break outside of the gage marks shall not be repulled.1956, Taylor, Duane F.; Sweeney, W. T., A proposed specification for dental chromium-cobalt casting alloys, National Bureau of Standards, page 10
    • and she stops, repulls the starter, and leans in hard again to move the engine1994, Frost, Carol, Pure, TriQuarterly Books, page 43

Forms of repull

third-person singular presentrepulls
present participlerepulling
past participlerepulled
pastrepulled

Origin of repull

re- + pull

Questions about repull

What does repull mean?
Repull means to pull again.
What part of speech is repull?
Repull is a verb.
What is the past tense of repull?
The past tense of repull is repulled.

Words near repull in the dictionary

  1. repugners
  2. Repugnican
  3. Repugnicans
  4. repugning
  5. repugns
  6. repull
  7. repulled
  8. repulling
  9. repulls
  10. repullulate
  11. repullulated

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