reach out - attempt to communicate; "I try to reach out to my daughter but she doesn't want to have anything to do with me"

carry, extend - continue or extend; "The civil war carried into the neighboring province"; "The disease extended into the remote mountain provinces"

lengthen - make longer; "Lengthen this skirt, please"

extend - prolong the time allowed for payment of; "extend the loan"

temporise, temporize - draw out a discussion or process in order to gain time; "The speaker temporized in order to delay the vote"

spin out, spin - prolong or extend; "spin out a visit"

encourage - inspire with confidence; give hope or courage to

construe, interpret, see - make sense of; assign a meaning to; "What message do you see in this letter?"; "How do you interpret his behavior?"

remove, take away, withdraw, take - remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, taking off, etc. or remove something abstract; "remove a threat"; "remove a wrapper"; "Remove the dirty dishes from the table"; "take the gun from your pocket"; "This machine withdraws heat from the environment"

wring out, squeeze out - extract (liquid) by squeezing or pressing; "wring out the washcloth"

demodulate - extract information from a modulated carrier wave

thread - remove facial hair by tying a fine string around it and pulling at the string; "She had her eyebrows threaded"

pull out, draw, get out, pull, take out - bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover; "draw a weapon"; "pull out a gun"; "The mugger pulled a knife on his victim"