pull round

verb

To recover; to return to normal.

Meanings

verbpull round (third-person singular simple present pulls round, present participle pulling round, simple past and past participle pulled round)

present singular third person pulls round · participle present pulling round · participle past pulled round · past pulled round

  1. 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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