Meanings
present singular third person pulls round · participle present pulling round · participle past pulled round · past pulled round
- To recover; to return to normal.
1 more example
There could be no doubt in my mind that all this had taken place the previous evening – for one thing, I should have been a great deal hungrier even than I was had it been longer ago. Very well, what was this, then? Had the whole hospital, the whole city made such a night of it that they'd not pulled round yet?
1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 14
Synonyms & antonyms
verbcontinue in existence after (an adversity, etc.)
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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