yank

One man kills the other, hurls his inert body over the side—only to discover himself being yanked over the side.

In preparing for the current school year, there was — and continues to be — worry that funding could be yanked midyear.

Stalin grabbed his daughter by the hair and yanked her onto the dance floor.

At General Electric, Jack Welch’s “rank and yank” system required managers to grade employees on a curve and cull the bottom 10% each year.

I yanked the pin and doused her flaming underwear drawers with a heavy dose of CO2.