The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pull \Pull\, v. i. To exert one's self in an act or motion of drawing or hauling; to tug; as, to pull at a rope.
To pull apart, to become separated by pulling; as, a rope will pull apart.
To pull up, to draw the reins; to stop; to halt.
To pull through, to come successfully to the end of a difficult undertaking, a dangerous sickness, or the like.
Usage examples of "to pull apart".
Planks creaked as plants lashing up from the depths tried to pull apart planks and drag down keels.
How many times had he been pulled from a deep sleep in the early hours of the southern Libyan morning, blindfolded and required to pull apart and reassemble a Soviet-made AK-47 rifle witljin three minutes?
I folded over the last two inches of tape to make it easier to pull apart, then started on another.
They had died that way, struggling to pull apart over countless days and nights.
Crope severed the chains that connected them, though he did not expect them to pull apart.
Apparently when the drabit grabbed her, its talons had severely frayed the ropes, and now the hound was able to pull apart her restraints with minimal effort.
He had nothing to inspect, to pull apart or put back together, to make it look as if she came second in his attentions.
He had drawn his gun and was steadily advancing toward the vertical ladder that led down from the fire escape when the figure moved, seemed to pull apart as if dividing.