Yank

yank
verb, transitive. To pull or extract with a quick, vigorous movement.
verb, intransitive. To pull on something with a quick, vigorous movement.
Also a noun.

Liz fumed as she laced her athletic shoes, wishing for the hundredth time that she had bought a different brand. These were too soft; too yielding. She was beginning to fear an injury because they felt so inadequate. The aches she felt around her insteps after her runs alarmed her. She was a big woman. Her feet needed support, not just cushioning. She yanked the lace tight and tied the knot, then turned to her other foot.

“Is something wrong?” her husband asked from the doorway.

Liz glanced up at him before returning her attention to her shoe. “Would you be upset with me if I told you that I want to drive to Edmond to buy a different pair of shoes?” She kept her eyes on her hands, knowing that he was probably gaping at her in disbelief.

He took his time responding. When he spoke, his voice was quiet: “I guess you should do as you think best, Liz. You’ve been complaining about those shoes since you bought them.”

She finished tying the second shoe and stood, looking at her feet while she wriggled her toes. “I know they’re really expensive,” she said, “but so is a podiatrist.”

Definitions adapted from The New Oxford American Dictionary, Oxford University Press, Inc., 2005 (eBook Edition, copyright 2008), and from Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam Company, Publishers, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA, 1965, depending on which is more convenient to hand.