WordNet
v. continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.); "He survived the cancer against all odds" [syn: survive, pull through, come through, make it] [ant: succumb]
Usage examples of "pull round".
We borrow Deimos's orbital motion to assist us, and as we pull round on the sunward side, you'll see Mars go through all its phases in a half hour.
The villager had seen the fleet of great red galleys pull round the point, having burned to the waterline the ships that had brought the circumcised to Mallorca long months before.
The boat was well loaded that afternoon, and they had a heavy pull round, and hard work afterwards to carry all the articles up.
Obviously, Smallwood and Corazzini must have feared - and with reason -that on one of these occasions it would pull round the tail of the tractor after it and topple the tractor on its side, or, worse, drag it into a crevasse: so they had unhooked the tow-bar and left the sled.
In the last Act of La Boheme I'm still thinking that Mimi will pull round.
After the men had had their dinner he would put off in the quarter boat and pull round the ship.
It was with anxiety that Hornblower's return was awaited from his next pull round the ship.