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Synonyms for pull
Synonyms for pull: take, attract, drag, extract and perpetrate. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 5 synonyms for pull
Interchangeable with pull in this sense
Audited under pull's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one pull carries in that sense.
- takeverb, in the sense "remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name pull as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- attractattract is a verb in the sense "direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes"
- dragdrag is a noun in the sense "a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke)"
- extractextract is a verb in the sense "remove, usually with some force or effort"
- perpetrateperpetrate is a verb in the sense "perform an act, usually with a negative connotation"
one of these comes from pull's own entry in the bank, and four were audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.
remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract
Pull the old soup cans from the supermarket shelf.
The true synonym
take
Same sentence, swapped: Take the old soup cans from the supermarket shelf.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for pull in the sentence quoted.
- tear
- commit
- drop
Where pull turns up in the game
pull is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in five other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
4 of the 5 puzzles where pull is the trap
- cleanverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is pick, in the sense "remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits", and pull is one of the three tiles that lose.
- controlverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is master, in the sense "have a firm understanding or knowledge of", and pull is one of the three tiles that lose.
- tearverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is snap, in the sense "separate or cause to separate abruptly", with pull sitting one tile away.
- drivenoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is thrust, in the sense "the act of applying force to propel something", so pull is there to be ruled out.
Play pull
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so pull reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other change words at Foothills, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. pull carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.