pick up
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～ improve significantly; go from bad to good; "Her performance in school picked up"
pick up
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～ eat by pecking at, like a bird
pick up
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～ take into custody; "the police nabbed the suspected criminals"
pick up
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～ fill with high spirits; fill with optimism; "Music can uplift your spirits"
pick up
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～ lift out or reflect from a background; "The scarf picks up the color of the skirt"; "His eyes picked up his smile"
pick up
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～ get in addition, as an increase; "The candidate picked up thousands of votes after his visit to the nursing home"
perk up
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～ gain or regain energy; "I picked up after a nap"
pick up
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～ register (perceptual input); "pick up a signal"
pile up
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～ collect or gather; "Journals are accumulating in my office"; "The work keeps piling up"
pick up
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～ perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily; "I caught the aroma of coffee"; "He caught the allusion in her glance"; "ears open to catch every sound"; "The dog picked up the scent"; "Catch a glimpse"
pile up
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～ arrange into piles or stacks; "She piled up her books in my living room"
play up
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～ move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent; "The introduction highlighted the speaker's distinguished career in linguistics"
plump up
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～ make fuller by shaking; "fluff up the pillows"
play up
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～ ingratiate oneself to; often with insincere behavior; "She is playing up to the chairman"
loosen up
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～ become less tense, less formal, or less restrained, and assume a friendlier manner; "our new colleague relaxed when he saw that we were a friendly group"
make up
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～ concoct something artificial or untrue
loosen up
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～ cause to become unblocked; "The medicine unstuffed my nose in minutes!"
live it up
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～ enjoy oneself; "it's your birthday, so let's live it up!"