"pull through" meaning in English

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      "form": "pulls through",
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        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "pulling through",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "pulled through",
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        "past"
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      "form": "pulled through",
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        "past"
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      "name": "en-verb"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "ref": "1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 215:",
          "text": "There was once a poor, very poor widow, who had an only son. She pulled through with the boy till he was confirmed; but then she told him that she could not feed him any longer; he would have to go out and earn his own bread.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1901 April 12, “District Reports”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 3, page 68:",
          "text": "Dr. Gilman's race horse was bad last week; fortunately Mr. Verney, the District Veterinary Surgeon, succeeded in pulling him through.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 26”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "At one time it looked as though he could not live more than a few hours, and I am convinced that it was only through the Dutchman's doggedness that he pulled through.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To come through pain and trouble through perseverance."
      ],
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        [
          "perseverance",
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        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To come through pain and trouble through perseverance."
      ],
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "translations": [
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          "code": "es",
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          "word": "sobrevivir"
        },
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          "_dis1": "96 3 2",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "recuperarse"
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        {
          "ref": "1936, F.J. Thwaites, chapter XV, in The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards, published 1940, page 176:",
          "text": "\"Dr. Van-Herne is confident of pulling Godfrey through, isn't he?\"",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To assist someone through difficulties, injury, pain, etc."
      ],
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        "(transitive) To assist someone through difficulties, injury, pain, etc."
      ],
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      "glosses": [
        "To clean the barrel of a firearm using a pull through."
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To clean the barrel of a firearm using a pull through."
      ],
      "tags": [
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  "word": "pull through"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pull throughs",
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        "plural"
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    {
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        "participle",
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    },
    {
      "form": "pulled through",
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      "form": "pulled through",
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      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 215:",
          "text": "There was once a poor, very poor widow, who had an only son. She pulled through with the boy till he was confirmed; but then she told him that she could not feed him any longer; he would have to go out and earn his own bread.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1901 April 12, “District Reports”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 3, page 68:",
          "text": "Dr. Gilman's race horse was bad last week; fortunately Mr. Verney, the District Veterinary Surgeon, succeeded in pulling him through.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 26”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "At one time it looked as though he could not live more than a few hours, and I am convinced that it was only through the Dutchman's doggedness that he pulled through.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To come through pain and trouble through perseverance."
      ],
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        ],
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          "trouble",
          "trouble"
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        ]
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To come through pain and trouble through perseverance."
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          "text": "\"Dr. Van-Herne is confident of pulling Godfrey through, isn't he?\"",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To assist someone through difficulties, injury, pain, etc."
      ],
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        "(transitive) To assist someone through difficulties, injury, pain, etc."
      ],
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    },
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        "To clean the barrel of a firearm using a pull through."
      ],
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        "(transitive) To clean the barrel of a firearm using a pull through."
      ],
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      "code": "es",
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      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "sobrevivir"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "recuperarse"
    }
  ],
  "word": "pull through"
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