pull away
— phrasal verb with pull uk/pʊl/us/pʊl/verb
(VEHICLE)
If a vehicle pulls away, it starts moving:
There was a roar and a cloud of smoke as the car pulled away from the traffic lights.
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Departing
- abandon
- absquatulate
- backward
- be ready to roll idiom
- bog
- desertion
- drive
- go down
- hit
- piss
- push along
- push off
- ready
- road
- run
- run away
- sally
- walk off (somewhere)
- walk out
- without (so much as) a backward glance idiom
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On the road: driving & operating road vehicles
(PERSON)
If you pull away from someone who is holding you, you suddenly move your body backwards, away from them:
She pulled away just as he was about to kiss her.
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Making short, sudden movements
- aquiver
- convulse
- convulsion
- convulsive
- cringe
- flick
- jerky
- jig
- jiggle
- jolt
- judder
- palpitate
- quiver
- shrink
- squirm
- toss
- tremulous
- whip
- worry at sth
- wriggle
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Running away and escaping