See pull up short in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "pulls up short",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "pulling up short",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "pulled up short",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "pulled up short",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "*",
"head": "pull up short"
},
"expansion": "pull up short (third-person singular simple present pulls up short, present participle pulling up short, simple past and past participle pulled up short)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "46 54",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "46 54",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English light verb constructions",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Synonym of bring up short"
],
"id": "en-pull_up_short-en-verb-6n-Pvw1p",
"links": [
[
"bring up short",
"bring up short#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) Synonym of bring up short"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"tags": [
"synonym",
"synonym-of"
],
"word": "bring up short"
}
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Psychology",
"orig": "en:Psychology",
"parents": [
"Social sciences",
"Sciences",
"Society",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "46 54",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "46 54",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English light verb constructions",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "45 55",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "35 65",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
75,
90
]
],
"ref": "2015, Mary Jo Hinsdale, Mutuality, Mystery, and Mentorship in Higher Education, page 99:",
"text": "Deborah Kerdeman asks us to prepare for the occasions on which we will be “pulled up short.”",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To be overwhelmed or dumbfounded by events."
],
"id": "en-pull_up_short-en-verb-jfwGYT9C",
"links": [
[
"psychology",
"psychology"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive, psychology) To be overwhelmed or dumbfounded by events."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
],
"topics": [
"human-sciences",
"psychology",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"word": "pull up short"
}
{
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English light verb constructions",
"English multiword terms",
"English verbs",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"forms": [
{
"form": "pulls up short",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "pulling up short",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "pulled up short",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "pulled up short",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "*",
"head": "pull up short"
},
"expansion": "pull up short (third-person singular simple present pulls up short, present participle pulling up short, simple past and past participle pulled up short)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English transitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"Synonym of bring up short"
],
"links": [
[
"bring up short",
"bring up short#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) Synonym of bring up short"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"tags": [
"synonym",
"synonym-of"
],
"word": "bring up short"
}
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with quotations",
"en:Psychology"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
75,
90
]
],
"ref": "2015, Mary Jo Hinsdale, Mutuality, Mystery, and Mentorship in Higher Education, page 99:",
"text": "Deborah Kerdeman asks us to prepare for the occasions on which we will be “pulled up short.”",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To be overwhelmed or dumbfounded by events."
],
"links": [
[
"psychology",
"psychology"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive, psychology) To be overwhelmed or dumbfounded by events."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
],
"topics": [
"human-sciences",
"psychology",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"word": "pull up short"
}
Download raw JSONL data for pull up short meaning in English (1.7kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-04-13 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-04-03 using wiktextract (aeaf2a1 and fb63907). 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.