"pull through" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pulls through",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulling through",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulled through",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulled through",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "pull through (third-person singular simple present pulls through, present participle pulling through, simple past and past participle pulled through)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "4 71 7 18",
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          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "10 55 15 20",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (through)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To come through pain and trouble through perseverance."
      ],
      "id": "en-pull_through-en-verb-XEypTqYo",
      "links": [
        [
          "pain",
          "pain"
        ],
        [
          "trouble",
          "trouble"
        ],
        [
          "perseverance",
          "perseverance"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To come through pain and trouble through perseverance."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "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": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To assist someone through difficulties, injury, pain, etc."
      ],
      "id": "en-pull_through-en-verb-a1FPyIDT",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To assist someone through difficulties, injury, pain, etc."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "To clean the barrel of a firearm using a pull through."
      ],
      "id": "en-pull_through-en-verb-W0z-d41N",
      "links": [
        [
          "barrel",
          "barrel"
        ],
        [
          "firearm",
          "firearm"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To clean the barrel of a firearm using a pull through."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pull through"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pull throughs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "pull through (plural pull throughs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "pull-through"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "Misspelling of pull-through."
      ],
      "id": "en-pull_through-en-noun-TggsJn4W",
      "links": [
        [
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      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "misspelling"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pull through"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "English phrasal verbs",
    "English phrasal verbs with particle (through)",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pulls through",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulling through",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulled through",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulled through",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "pull through (third-person singular simple present pulls through, present participle pulling through, simple past and past participle pulled through)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To come through pain and trouble through perseverance."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "pain",
          "pain"
        ],
        [
          "trouble",
          "trouble"
        ],
        [
          "perseverance",
          "perseverance"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To come through pain and trouble through perseverance."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "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": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To assist someone through difficulties, injury, pain, etc."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To assist someone through difficulties, injury, pain, etc."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To clean the barrel of a firearm using a pull through."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "barrel",
          "barrel"
        ],
        [
          "firearm",
          "firearm"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To clean the barrel of a firearm using a pull through."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pull through"
}

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  "categories": [
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    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "English phrasal verbs",
    "English phrasal verbs with particle (through)",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pull throughs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "pull through (plural pull throughs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "pull-through"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English misspellings"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Misspelling of pull-through."
      ],
      "links": [
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      "tags": [
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    }
  ],
  "word": "pull through"
}