Word.ws English Dictionary

underpulling

underpulling is the present participle and gerund of underpull.

Meaning of underpull

Verb

underpull (third-person singular simple present underpulls, present participle underpulling, simple past and past participle underpulled)

  1. (transitive) To exert one's influence secretly.
    • His Lordship, while he was a Student, and during his Incapacity to practise aboveboard, was contented to underpull, as they call it, and managed diverse Suits for his Country Friends and Relations[…]a. 1734, Roger North, The Life of the Right Honourable Francis North
  2. To pull (any sense) insufficiently.
    • The common failing is to underpull in these early hours because of fear of overpull .1941, The Year Book of Industrial and Orthopedic Surgery, page 236

See all 11 meanings of underpull

Questions about underpulling

What is underpulling the present participle and gerund of?
Underpulling is the present participle and gerund of underpull.

Words near underpulling in the dictionary

  1. underpublished
  2. underpull
  3. underpulled
  4. underpuller
  5. underpullers
  6. underpulling
  7. underpulls
  8. underpulse
  9. underpulses
  10. underpunctuate
  11. underpunctuated

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: underpulling (page history and authors); underpull (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “underpulling.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/underpulling. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.