"pull at someone's heart strings" meaning in English

See pull at someone's heart strings in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: pulls at someone's heart strings [present, singular, third-person], pulling at someone's heart strings [participle, present], pulled at someone's heart strings [participle, past], pulled at someone's heart strings [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*|head=pull at someone's heart strings}} pull at someone's heart strings (third-person singular simple present pulls at someone's heart strings, present participle pulling at someone's heart strings, simple past and past participle pulled at someone's heart strings)
  1. Alternative form of pull at someone's heartstrings. Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: pull at someone's heartstrings
    Sense id: en-pull_at_someone's_heart_strings-en-verb-0IMhAJPI Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pulls at someone's heart strings",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulling at someone's heart strings",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulled at someone's heart strings",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulled at someone's heart strings",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*",
        "head": "pull at someone's heart strings"
      },
      "expansion": "pull at someone's heart strings (third-person singular simple present pulls at someone's heart strings, present participle pulling at someone's heart strings, simple past and past participle pulled at someone's heart strings)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "pull at someone's heartstrings"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of pull at someone's heartstrings."
      ],
      "id": "en-pull_at_someone's_heart_strings-en-verb-0IMhAJPI",
      "links": [
        [
          "pull at someone's heartstrings",
          "pull at someone's heartstrings#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pull at someone's heart strings"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pulls at someone's heart strings",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulling at someone's heart strings",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulled at someone's heart strings",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulled at someone's heart strings",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*",
        "head": "pull at someone's heart strings"
      },
      "expansion": "pull at someone's heart strings (third-person singular simple present pulls at someone's heart strings, present participle pulling at someone's heart strings, simple past and past participle pulled at someone's heart strings)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "pull at someone's heartstrings"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of pull at someone's heartstrings."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "pull at someone's heartstrings",
          "pull at someone's heartstrings#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pull at someone's heart strings"
}

Download raw JSONL data for pull at someone's heart strings meaning in English (1.2kB)

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-08-18 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-08-02 using wiktextract (0c45963 and 3c020d2). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.