pulls up
Halts at curb
Pulls up covers several actions involving upward or stopping motion.
You pull up a chair to join a conversation, pull up your socks, or pull up a file on your computer.
A car pulls up when it arrives and stops: A cab pulled up outside.
To pull someone up is to correct or reprimand them: She pulled him up on his grammar.
In exercise, a pull-up is lifting your body by gripping a bar overhead.
- draw upCompose or prepare officially
- stopCease all motion
- arriveReach a destination
- rolls upWinds something into itself
- liftMechanism for vertical transport
hoist · halt · slows down · admonish · reprimand · calls out · brake · reach · cease · elevate · park · uproot · digs up · decelerate · interrupt · rebuke · terminate · tug
pulls uppulls away
Increases distance from
drives off · takes off · keeps going · departs · leaves
pulls upcloses out
Terminates or completes fully
closes · shuts down · exits · dismisses · minimizes