yank

If you can’t use a hook to yank the bad comic off the stage, then the only way left is to simply refuse to be part of the audience.

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

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

Many tuna longliners use special steel leads designed not to break when the sharks, bigger and stronger than the tuna, try to yank themselves free.

Still more have preemptively yanked products from their shelves.