pick
— Verb
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~ attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example; "Pick open the ice"
pick at
— Verb
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~ eat like a bird; "The anorexic girl just picks at her food"
pick off
— Verb
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~ pull or pull out sharply; "pluck the flowers off the bush"
pick out
— Verb
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~ pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives; "Take any one of these cards"; "Choose a good husband for your daughter"; "She selected a pair of shoes from among the dozen the salesgirl had shown her"
pick
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~ hit lightly with a picking motion
pick
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~ eat intermittently; take small bites of; "He pieced at the sandwich all morning"; "She never eats a full meal--she just nibbles"
pick at
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~ pluck or pull at with the fingers; "She picked nervously at the buttons of her blouse"
pick
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~ select carefully from a group; "She finally picked her successor"; "He picked his way carefully"
pick at
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~ express a negative opinion of; "She disparaged her student's efforts"
pick out
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~ detect with the senses; "The fleeing convicts were picked out of the darkness by the watchful prison guards"; "I can't make out the faces in this photograph"
pick
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~ pilfer or rob; "pick pockets"
pick
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~ pay for something; "pick up the tab"; "pick up the burden of high-interest mortgages"; "foot the bill"
pick apart
— Verb
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~ find fault with; express criticism of; point out real or perceived flaws; "The paper criticized the new movie"; "Don't knock the food--it's free"
pick
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~ remove in small bits; "pick meat from a bone"
pick
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~ look for and gather; "pick mushrooms"; "pick flowers"
Pick's disease
— Noun
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~ a progressive form of presenile dementia found most often in middle-aged and elderly women and characterized by degeneration of the frontal and temporal lobes with loss of intellectual ability and transitory aphasia
pickaback
— Adverb
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~ on a railroad flatcar; "the trailer rode piggyback across the country"
pickaback
— Adverb
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~ on the back or shoulder or astraddle on the hip; "she carried her child piggyback"
pickaninny
— Noun
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~ (ethnic slur) offensive term for a Black child