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up-pulled

up-pulled adjective: pulled up.

Adjective

up-pulled (not comparable)

  1. Pulled up.
    • […] Mr. Lawson turned to refasten an up-pulled tent-peg, and to get a cord, and when he turned round again, the mulatto was gone.1869, Edward Howe, The boy in the bush, page 228
    • Her handsome leg was exposed by the up-pulled hem of her torn tunic.2017, Gardner Fox, Jeffrey K. Gardner, Cleopatra
  2. Uprooted.
    • A sympathetic youngster two or three years her senior thereupon came over, and, after persuading her to stop crying, showed her how to bury the roots of the up-pulled sprouts so that they would continue in their growth.1911, Arthur Hastings Grant, Harold Sinley Buttenheim, The American City, volume 4, page 187

Forms of up-pulled

alternative formuppulled

Origin of up-pulled

From Middle English uppuld, equivalent to up- + pulled.

Questions about up-pulled

What does up-pulled mean?
Up-pulled means pulled up.
What part of speech is up-pulled?
Up-pulled is an adjective.

Words near up-pulled in the dictionary

  1. up-minded
  2. up-or-out
  3. up-over
  4. up-plow
  5. up-plows
  6. up-pulled
  7. up-putting
  8. up-puttings
  9. up-regulate
  10. up-regulated
  11. up-regulates

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