pluck
采摘,拔掉,摘取,拔取
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Definitions
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- : to pull off or out from the place of growth, as fruit, flowers, feathers, etc.: to pluck feathers from a chicken.
- : to give a pull at; grasp: to pluck someone's sleeve.
- : to pull with sudden force or with a jerk.
- : to pull or move by force.
- : to remove the feathers, hair, etc., from by pulling: to pluck a chicken.
- : Slang. to rob, plunder, or fleece.
- : to sound by pulling at them with the fingers or a plectrum.
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- : to pull or tug sharply.
- : to snatch.
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- : act of plucking; a tug.
- : the heart, liver, and lungs, especially of an animal used for food.
- : courage or resolution in the face of difficulties.
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- : pluck up, to eradicate; uproot.to summon up one's courage; rouse one's spirits: He always plucked up at the approach of danger. She was a stranger in the town, but, plucking up her courage, she soon made friends.
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Examples
Bergdahl, who appeared in a previous video pleading for the United States to rescue him, seems to have demonstrated no such pluck.
Pluck a pebble from a mountain and pretend the mountain is gone.
Maintaining tight eye contact, the butlers pluck out audience members for a gripping, melancholic dance.
The human urge to pluck a string and make music goes back many millennia.
The easiest thing would be to pluck another exiled oligarch out of the sin bin.
It is more advantageous to pluck the leaves when they are dry than when they are moist.
You've done a big thing to-day, and if you hadn't had more pluck and ginger than common, it's a cinch you'd have lost out.
You that hate good, and love evil: that violently pluck off their skins from them and their flesh from their bones?
And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: and will crush thy cities.
For a pen she would catch a goose, pluck a quill, and ask Billy to cut it.