Translation
to pull out, to draw out; to extract
Examples
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He drew a sword out from under his clothing.
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The doctor pulled out my tooth.
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She pulled a letter out of her pocket.
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They pulled the child out of the water.
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I cannot pull the stone out of the ground.
- plus , and it pairs naturally with as the preposition too, so the standard sentence is . That doubling looks redundant to English eyes and is completely normal here. The prefix family is worth having whole: entiri to pull in, altiri to attract, detiri to pull off, i to withdraw, and sin i for retiring from a room or an office. All are transitive, and eltiro gives you an extract in the textual sense.
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