英语词汇“yank”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

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yank

Simple Form
Present	I, you, we, they	yank
	he, she, it	yanks
Past	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	yanked
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have yanked
	he, she, it	has yanked
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had yanked
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will yank
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have yanked

Continuous Form
Present	I	am yanking
	he, she, it	is yanking
	you, we, they	are yanking
Past	I, he, she, it	was yanking
	you, we, they	were yanking
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have been yanking
	he, she, it	has been yanking
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had been yanking
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will be yanking
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have been yanking

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES

Buddy yanked the drawer open, and took out the gun.
His friends grabbed him and yanked him to his feet.
The child's mother caught him just in time, and yanked him away from the kerb.
The other girls surrounded her, calling her names and yanking her hair.

EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS

Five children were yanked by arm or hand across a road.
Hands vanished around the room, yanked from the maws of a closing trap.
He yanks me up by the hair.
He reached and enclosed the boy in his great hammock of an arm, and with the other arm began to yank.
Liz yanked at her arm, and she stumbled a few steps, digging in her heels.
She pulled one of her white ceremonial gowns over my head and yanked my arms.
Smiling wryly, he fetched the lead and yanked Clytemnestra from the best armchair.
The scales have been yanked from an 8-foot-tall statue of Justice.

Longman Language Activatorto pull something suddenly► jerk

to pull something with a sudden quick movement: · He jerked the string and the light came on.jerk something away/back/down etc: · Isabel jerked her hand away from his and shoved it in her pocket.

► yank

to pull something or someone with one sudden, quick and forceful movement, especially out of somewhere or away from something: · The other girls surrounded her, calling her names and yanking her hair.· Buddy yanked the drawer open, and took out the gun.yank something away/out/back etc: · His friends grabbed him and yanked him to his feet.· The child's mother caught him just in time, and yanked him away from the kerb.

COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY► gave ... a yank

He gave the rope a yank.

COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB► back

· It jerked his foot banged his knee and was yanked back open.· The wildness that shot up into the eye the moment the lips were yanked back.· Not now ... Creed yanked back the lift door and then the outer one.· Barrow yanked back the bedclothes and both men gasped.

► out

· Its gold nylon curls had been yanked out.· Thus, removing Windows software is not as simple as yanking out that directory and the files it contains.· District maintenance workers yanked out the seats and replaced them with portable chairs.· Something must be getting to me, he thought, yanking out his shirttail and wiping at his eyes.

NOUN► door

· I yanked the door open and hit the threshold running.· Lincoln stayed right beside me, pressing against me as I yanked on the car door, having trouble getting it open.· He yanked the door open and stumbled inside.· I yanked the door back and slammed it to behind me.· Not now ... Creed yanked back the lift door and then the outer one.· Furious with Gilbert's panic, Rohmer pushed past him and yanked the door wide.· She turned back and yanked shut the door from where the offending smell came.· Panicking again, Gilbert yanked open the door to the office from which they'd just come and slipped inside.