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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

pull round en · VERB

Meanings

  1. To recover; to return to normal.
    • There could be no doubt in my mind that all this had taken place the previous evening – for one thing, I should have been a great deal hungrier even than I was had it been longer ago. Very well, what was this, then? Had the whole hospital, the whole city made such a night of it that they'd not pulled round yet? 1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 14:

Forms

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pulling round Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
pulled round Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
pulled round Tense=Past lexicographic
pulls round Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic