v
(transitive, aeronautics) To terminate a mission involving a missile or rocket; to destroy a missile or rocket prematurely.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To draw out; to draw (a sword).
v
(rare, perhaps nonstandard) To turn or open slightly; to become ajar or to cause to become ajar; to be or to hang ajar.
v
(idiomatic) To take a less aggressive position in a conflict than one previously has or has planned to.
v
(transitive) To reverse (a vehicle) from a confined space.
v
(transitive, rare, dialectal) To draw aside or away.
v
(obsolete except in set phrases) To remove, take off (clothes).
v
(transitive) to bring up as a reproach.
n
Alternative spelling of castoff [Something that has been rejected or discarded; a reject.]
v
To end legislative debate by this means.
v
(archaic) To trace (draw by copying).
v
(idiomatic) To strike out; to cross out; to draw a line through.
v
(idiomatic, transitive) To strike out; to draw a line through.
v
(transitive) To refrain from (doing something, using something etc.), to stop/cease (doing something).
v
(transitive, sports) To discontinue the intake of for the time being.
v
(transitive) To hinder or prevent.
v
(transitive) To open (a building, for example) to public use.
v
(transitive) To lay down; to place; to put.
v
(transitive, architecture) To hollow out, as a gutter in stone or wood.
v
To change one's career or lifestyle to one which is not as well paid but less stressful and more personally rewarding.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To withdraw.
v
To deem (a matter, especially a problematic one) to be now closed or concluded.
v
to pull something back or apart
v
(transitive) To acquire or pull in, as funding.
v
(idiomatic, transitive) To attract.
v
(also draw upon) To appeal to, make a demand of, rely on; to utilize or make use of, as a source.
n
(electrical engineering) A planned delay in a timed control program.
v
(transitive, obsolete, also figuratively) To turn upside down; to overturn.
v
(computing) To automatically switch processing from a failed component in a critical system to its live spare or backup component.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To cast away; reject.
adj
(archaic, UK dialectal) Cast away, rejected; neglected; not used, cast off.
v
(transitive) To forcibly open (a door, lock etc.).
v
(transitive) To cast forth; cast away.
v
(transitive, obsolete or poetic) To draw or bring forth.
adj
Drawn forth; extended forward
n
(computing) A period during which a network router ignores messages about a currently unreachable route, giving it time to become reachable again.
adj
(idiomatic) moved from an ineffective position
v
(obsolete) To resolve or break up, as by medicines.
n
(computing, electronics) An event that causes a computer or other device to temporarily cease what it was doing and attend to a condition.
v
To discard one's weapons and cease fighting.
v
(transitive, theater, television) to remove from the cast of a production.
v
(transitive, aviation, travel) to deny a person on a standby list due to lack of space.
v
(transitive, intransitive, poker) To reveal one's hand.
v
(idiomatic) To make someone aware of something they did not know or fully understand before; to enlighten someone.
v
(intransitive) To reveal oneself; to share personal information about oneself; to become communicative.
v
(transitive) To release the source code of.
v
(transitive, computing) Synonym of page out
v
To pass, overtake, or travel past.
v
(transitive) To overthrow or destroy.
n
One who, or that which, overturns.
v
(transitive) To remove (something), especially from public circulation or availability.
v
(transitive) to separate (someone) from a crowd for a private conversation
v
(transitive) to pull in order to reveal something underneath or behind.
v
(figuratively, Australia, New Zealand) To withdraw; to discontinue what one is doing or saying; to back off.
v
To draw out or lengthen.
v
(colloquial) To opt out; to withdraw; to resign.
v
(intransitive, idiomatic) to cease production or publication.
adj
Alternative spelling of pullout
n
An object, such as a newspaper supplement, that can be pulled out from something else.
v
(transitive, idiomatic) To terminate or abolish.
v
(transitive) To supply (a garment, etc.) with a new hem.
v
(transitive, rare) To overturn; throw down.
v
(transitive) To draw a line underneath, for example to mark the end of a topic or of an accounting period.
v
To prevent from entering; to block or exclude.
v
To sideline; to push aside; to divert or distract from, reducing (something) to a secondary or subordinate position.
v
(transitive) To create as a by-product or a secondary derived work.
v
(transitive) To mark off the limits by stakes
v
(intransitive, figuratively) To shift one's attention away from an ongoing task; to change gears.
v
(transitive, euphemistic) To kill someone or something.
v
(obsolete) To draw out; to protract.
v
(transitive) To remove from a mould, bowl etc.
v
(idiomatic) To engage in self-improvement; to begin a good habit or shed a bad habit.
v
(intransitive, figuratively) To fail; to go belly up.
v
(chiefly Scotland) To draw back or aside, withdraw; retire.
v
(transitive, military) To display, or spread to view, as a flag, or the colors of a military body.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To turn upside down; subvert; upset.
v
(transitive) To stop transmitting on a two-way radio, etc.
v
(transitive, rare, nonstandard) To push the chair of (someone) back from a table.
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