PICKED

/pʰɪkt/

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Definition

/pʰɪkt/

verb

To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
“Don't pick at that scab.”
To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached; to harvest an entire plant by removing it from the ground.
“It's time to pick the tomatoes.”
To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.
“She picked flowers in the meadow.”
To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.
“to pick rags”
To remove something from somewhere with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth.
“to pick the teeth; to pick a bone; to pick a goose; to pick a pocket”

adjective