PULL Copy link • PULL 1. v. trahere: attrahere (to pull toward one’s self). To pull back, retrahere: to pull down, (aedificium) destruere (opposed to construere), demoliri (with violence): evertere (e.g., a statue): disjicere (e.g., walls, fortifications, statues): discutere (to shatter to pieces; a column, part of a wall, etc.). To PULL OFF, detrahere alicui aliquid, de aliqua re; abscindere (☞ not abscidere); avellere (to pluck off, pull off): abrumpere (to break off): to pull off fruit from trees, poma ex arboribus avellere (Cic., Cat., Maj., 19, 71, Orelli): to pull off bars from doors, claustra portarum avellere: to pull off clothes, exuere (opposed to induere; to be distinguished from deponere, to put off; opposed to amicire): to pull off anyone’s clothes, exuere aliquem veste; exuere or detrahere alicui vestem; one’s own clothes, se exuere vestibus; vestes sibi detrahere: to pull off anyone’s shoes, aliquem excalceare; one’s own shoes, excalceari, excalceare pedes: to make another pull off one’s shoes, pedes excalceandos praebere alicui. To PULL OUT, PULL UP, vellere, evellere; revellere (to tear away): intervellere (to pull out here and there, to pull out in part): eruere (PROP., to dig out; eyes and teeth): extrahere (to draw out). To pull up by the roots, radicitus vellere, evellere, extrahere; exstirpare: to pull out a tooth, dentem evellere (alicui); dentem eximere (alicui): to pull out one’s eyes, oculos alicui eripere or eruere. 2. s. tractus, -ūs; or rather by the verbs.