Pull and Sever

Pull

Pull verb - To cause to follow by applying steady force on.

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Sever and pull are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Sever" instead a verb "Pull".

Nearby Words: pulled, pulling, puller

Sever verb - To set or force apart.

Usage example: disapproving parents who were willing to do anything to sever the young lovers

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Pull and sever are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Pull" instead a verb "Sever".

Nearby Words: severity, severance, severing

He even sat up during the burning note Though this was likely caused by failure to sever his tendons before burning... the heat made them shrink and pull him into a sitting position.

Source: Normally, I Would Be Dead Now
The Guardian spits out pods at a fairly steady rate, and the only way to kill it is to sever the five tentacles that it attaches to the walland which it can pull inside of itself and reattach if it feels like it.

Source: Demonic Spiders / Survival Horror
Not only does Ryoma Nagare manage to pull this off in Getter Robo (though with some injury to his hands), he also manages to redirect the blade into another man's skull and then sever another man's arm clean off by throwing it.

Source: Bare-Handed Blade Block

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