pull through

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verb

1. bring into safety
- We pulled through most of the victims of the bomb attack
• Syn:
save, carry through, bring through
• Derivationally related forms:
savior (for: save)
• Hyponyms:
rescue, deliver
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
2. continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.)
- He survived the cancer against all odds
• Syn:
survive, pull round, come through, make it
• Ant:
succumb (for: survive)
• Derivationally related forms:
survivor (for: survive), survival (for: survive)
• Hypernyms:
get the better of, overcome, defeat
• Entailment:
recuperate, recover, convalesce
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s something (for: survive)
- The business is going to pull through