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All avulse synonyms

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verb avulse

  • cull — If items or ideas are culled from a particular source or number of sources, they are taken and gathered together.
  • derive — If you derive something such as pleasure or benefit from a person or from something, you get it from them.
  • distill — to subject to a process of vaporization and subsequent condensation, as for purification or concentration.
  • separate — to keep apart or divide, as by an intervening barrier or space: to separate two fields by a fence.
  • wrest — to twist or turn; pull, jerk, or force by a violent twist.
  • glean — to gather slowly and laboriously, bit by bit.
  • reap — to cut (wheat, rye, etc.) with a sickle or other implement or a machine, as in harvest.
  • obtain — to come into possession of; get, acquire, or procure, as through an effort or by a request: to obtain permission; to obtain a better income.
  • pluck — to pull off or out from the place of growth, as fruit, flowers, feathers, etc.: to pluck feathers from a chicken.
  • siphon — a tube or conduit bent into legs of unequal length, for use in drawing a liquid from one container into another on a lower level by placing the shorter leg into the container above and the longer leg into the one below, the liquid being forced up the shorter leg and into the longer one by the pressure of the atmosphere.
  • pry — to inquire impertinently or unnecessarily into something: to pry into the personal affairs of others.
  • withdraw — to draw back, away, or aside; take back; remove: She withdrew her hand from his. He withdrew his savings from the bank.
  • squeeze — to press forcibly together; compress.
  • wring — to twist forcibly: He wrung the chicken's neck.
  • pull — pull media
  • gather — to bring together into one group, collection, or place: to gather firewood; to gather the troops.
  • secure — free from or not exposed to danger or harm; safe.
  • get — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
  • tear — the act of tearing.
  • garner — to gather or deposit in or as if in a granary or other storage place.
  • uproot — to pull out by or as if by the roots: The hurricane uprooted many trees and telephone poles.
  • yank — an abrupt, vigorous pull; jerk.
  • select — to choose in preference to another or others; pick out.
  • take — to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
  • catheterize — to insert a catheter into
  • draw out — to cause to move in a particular direction by or as if by a pulling force; pull; drag (often followed by along, away, in, out, or off).
  • distil — (transitive) Subject a substance to distillation; .
  • syphon — a tube or conduit bent into legs of unequal length, for use in drawing a liquid from one container into another on a lower level by placing the shorter leg into the container above and the longer leg into the one below, the liquid being forced up the shorter leg and into the longer one by the pressure of the atmosphere.
  • bring out — When a person or company brings out a new product, especially a new book or CD, they produce it and put it on sale.
  • pick up — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
  • weed out — a valueless plant growing wild, especially one that grows on cultivated ground to the exclusion or injury of the desired crop.
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