pull up short
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
stop abruptly
The police car pulled up short and then turned around fast
Types & categories
- stop hypernym
Related & opposite
- driving domain topic
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | domain topic | Related & opposite | driving |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | stop |