Words starting with P

• pick up — Verb – English ～ lift out or reflect from a background; "The scarf picks up the color of the skirt"; "His eyes picked up his smile"
• pick up — Verb – English ～ get in addition, as an increase; "The candidate picked up thousands of votes after his visit to the nursing home"
• perk up — Verb – English ～ gain or regain energy; "I picked up after a nap"
• pick up — Verb – English ～ register (perceptual input); "pick up a signal"
• pile up — Verb – English ～ collect or gather; "Journals are accumulating in my office"; "The work keeps piling up"
• pick up — Verb – English ～ 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 — Verb – English ～ arrange into piles or stacks; "She piled up her books in my living room"
• play up — Verb – English ～ move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent; "The introduction highlighted the speaker's distinguished career in linguistics"
• plump up — Verb – English ～ make fuller by shaking; "fluff up the pillows"
• pipe up — Verb – English ～ begin to play or sing
• pick up — Verb – English ～ take and lift upward
• play up — Verb – English ～ ingratiate oneself to; often with insincere behavior; "She is playing up to the chairman"
• prim up — Verb – English ～ dress primly
• prang up — Verb – English ～ make pregnant; "He impregnated his wife again"
• pound up — Verb – English ～ shut up or confine in any enclosure or within any bounds or limits; "The prisoners are safely pounded"
• point up — Verb – English ～ emphasize, especially by identification; "This novel points up the racial problems in England"
• polish up — Verb – English ～ bring to a highly developed, finished, or refined state; "polish your social manners"
• pop up — Verb – English ～ appear suddenly or unexpectedly; "The farm popped into view as we turned the corner"; "He suddenly popped up out of nowhere"
• pony up — Verb – English ～ give reluctantly; "He coughed up some money for his children's tuition"
• pretty up — Verb – English ～ use special care in dressing, making-up, etc.; "She dolled herself up for the night out with her friends"

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