Pull At

Definition: Pull At

Pull At

Verb

1. Pluck or pull at with the fingers; "She picked nervously at the buttons of her blouse".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Pull At

Crosswords: Pull At

Eponine got up, and without letting go of the cat, went to her mother and began to pull at her skirt.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "pull at": pull at a bottle ♦ pull at smb.'s heartstrings. Additional references.

Albanian

thith (absorb, draw, draw down, drink, imbibe, immerse, inhale, nipple, snuff, soak, soak up, sop, suck, suck in, take up), heq (abate, abolish, avert, bereave, blow, call off, cast, clear away, clear out, cross, cut off, cut out, deduct, delete, derogate, detach, detrude, dislodge, dismiss, dismount, divest, do away with, doff, drag, draw, drop, eject, eliminate, erase, exhaust, expel, exscind, extract, gather in, generate, get off, jump, keep off, kill, lift, lift off, move off, off with, omit, oust, peel back, pick off, pull off, pull out, put aside, put off, relegate, remove, save, scour, scratch, scratch off, scratch out, shake out, shed, skim, skip, soothe, spay, strike off, strip, subtract, swing, take away, take off, take out, tear away, throw out, turn away, undergo, unhang, unhook, unpin, unstring). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сръбвам (dram, sip), смуча (suck), подръпвам (give a pull, hitch, pull, twitch), дръпвам (hitch, jerk, pull, pull away, pull down, pull in, retract, strike, suck at, tug, tweak, twitch, withdraw). (various references)

Chinese 

�'� (to tear). (various references)

Czech

škubat za (pull). (various references)

Hungarian

ránt (hitch, to hitch, to jerk, to mire, to pluck, to pull, to tug, twitch, yank), húz (drag, draw, Hale, haul, lug, pull, to banter, to censor, to cut out, to hale, to haul, to hitch, to josh, to kid, to lug, to pluck, to pull, to pull at, to rally, to rile, to tow, to tug, tug). (various references)

Pig Latin

ullpay atay

Romanian

trage din, trage de (pluck at, tug at), bea pe nerãsuflate. (various references)

Russian 

потянуть (pull, pull by), дергать (jerk, jerked, pull, rase, twitch, yank, yanked). (various references)

Spanish

beber de la botella (pull at a bottle). (various references)

Swedish

dra i. (various references)

Turkish

suistimal etmek (abuse, misemploy, misuse, pull at smb.'s heartstrings), iyi niyetini kötüye kullanmak (pull at smb.'s heartstrings), en hassas tarafına hitabetmek (pull at smb.'s heartstrings). (various references)

Turkmen 

зykarmak (remove, take off, take out). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: pall, plat, pula, pull, tall.

-3 letters: all, alp, alt, apt, lap, lat, pal, pat, pul, put, tap, tau, tup, uta.

-4 letters: al, at, la, pa, ta, up, ut.

+2 letters: plateful, pulpital.

+3 letters: plaintful, platefuls, platesful, pluralist, plurality, pollutant, pullulate, pulsatile.

+4 letters: callithump, eucalyptol, leucoplast, multiplant, multipolar, petulantly, platterful, pluralists, pollutants, prothallus, pullulated, pullulates, punctually, sculptural.

+5 letters: apicultural, callithumps, culpability, cupellation, eucalyptole, eucalyptols, leucoplasts, lilliputian, multiplayer, painfullest, perpetually, platterfuls, plattersful, pluralistic, pluralities, prothallium, pullulating, pullulation, spiritually, suppliantly, ultrasimple, unpalatable, unpolitical, untypically.