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pluck (verb)

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  • pluck — ► VERB 1) take hold of (something) and quickly remove it from its place. 2) pull out (a hair, feather, etc.) 3) pull the feathers from (a bird s carcass) to prepare it for cooking. 4) pull at or twitch. 5) sound (a stringed musical instrument)… …   English terms dictionary

  • pluck at — verb pluck or pull at with the fingers She picked nervously at the buttons of her blouse • Syn: ↑pick at, ↑pull at • Hypernyms: ↑pull • Verb Frames: Somebody s something * * * …   Useful english dictionary

  • pluck up — verb Etymology: Middle English plucken up, from plucken to pluck + up, adverb transitive verb 1. : to assume an appearance of : bring to the fore : summon plucked his nerve up …   Useful english dictionary

  • pluck — verb Pluck is used with these nouns as the object: ↑chicken, ↑eyebrow, ↑feather, ↑guitar, ↑leaf, ↑string …   Collocations dictionary

  • pluck — verb 1》 take hold of (something) and quickly remove it from its place.     ↘catch hold of and pull quickly. 2》 pull the feathers from (a bird s carcass) to prepare it for cooking.     ↘pull some of the hairs from (one s eyebrows) to make them… …   English new terms dictionary

  • pluck up — verb a) To remove something by plucking from e.g. the ground. Let none associate with the soul destroying Manicheans, who by decoctions of chaff counterfeit the sad look of fasting, who speak evil of the Creator of meats, and greedily devour the… …   Wiktionary

  • pluck — [[t]plʌ̱k[/t]] plucks, plucking, plucked 1) VERB If you pluck a fruit, flower, or leaf, you take it between your fingers and pull it in order to remove it from its stalk where it is growing. [WRITTEN] [V n from n] I plucked a lemon from the tree …   English dictionary

  • pluck — pluck1 [ plʌk ] verb * 1. ) transitive to pull the feathers off the body of a dead bird so that it can be cooked: a plucked chicken a ) MAINLY LITERARY to pull a piece of fruit from a tree, or a flower or leaf from a plant: PICK b ) to pull a… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • pluck — 1 verb 1 TAKE STH (T) to take hold of something and remove it from somewhere by pulling it: pluck sth from/off etc: She bent forward to pluck a thread off the lapel of his jacket. 2 pluck up (the) courage to force yourself to be brave and do… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • pluck — I UK [plʌk] / US verb Word forms pluck : present tense I/you/we/they pluck he/she/it plucks present participle plucking past tense plucked past participle plucked * 1) [transitive] to pull the feathers off the body of a dead bird so that it can… …   English dictionary

  • pluck — I. verb Etymology: Middle English, from Old English pluccian; akin to Middle High German pflücken to pluck Date: before 12th century transitive verb 1. to pull or pick off or out 2. a. to remove something (as hairs) from by or as if by plucking …   New Collegiate Dictionary

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