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yanked

verb as in pull hard and fast

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Alice describes trying to leave his bedroom but being aggressively "yanked back from the doorway".

From BBC

But almost everything else had been looted - even the electrical cables were yanked out of the walls.

From BBC

Still more have preemptively yanked products from their shelves.

They get shoved into paper fast-food bags, drowned in sausage gravy and yanked from refrigerated tubes with a jarring pop.

From Salon

But when he looked at his home’s security camera, he realized that a strong wind had yanked out a metal canopy in his front yard and flipped it onto his roof.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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