💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Pluck up"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| uppluckverb | (transitive, rare) To pluck up; pull up; deracinate. |
| pickverb | To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails. |
| pick outverb | (transitive) To select. |
| ploatverb | To plunder or rifle. |
| handpickverb | (transitive) To select carefully and with individual attention. |
| pick offverb | To dispose of tasks, obstacles, opponents etc. precisely, one by one. |
| plucknoun | (informal, figurative, uncountable) Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence. |
| plumenoun | The vane (“flattened, web-like part”) of a feather, especially when on a quill pen or the fletching of an arrow. |
| unplantverb | (transitive) To dig up and remove (something planted). |
| decerpverb | (obsolete) To pluck off, to pick out, extract or gather. |
| routnoun | (originally military) The act of completely defeating an army or other enemy force, causing it to retreat in a disorganized manner; (by extension) in politics, sport, etc.: a convincing defeat; a thrashing, a trouncing. |
| extirpateverb | (transitive) To destroy completely; to annihilate. |
| sortnoun | A general type. |
| up-plowverb | (transitive, rare) To plow up; tear up as by plowing. |
| uprootverb | (transitive) (figuratively) To remove (someone or something) from a familiar circumstance, especially suddenly and unwillingly. |
| pullnoun | (countable) An act of pulling (applying force toward oneself). |
| root upverb | To dig or pull up by the roots. |
| unplumeverb | (transitive) To strip of plumes or feathers. |
| pull offverb | (transitive, idiomatic) To achieve, accomplish, succeed at (something difficult). |
| cullnoun | A selection. |
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