Antonyms for pluck
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1. pluck

   Synonyms:
   eradicate, root out, exterminate

Matched Categories

1. • Cheat
   • Fearlessness
   • Gather
   • Pull
   • Steal
   • Strip

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1. gutsiness, pluck, pluckinessnoun

   the trait of showing courage and determination in spite of possible loss or injury

   Synonyms:
   gutsiness, pluckiness

2. pluckverb

   the act of pulling and releasing a taut cord

   Synonyms:
   gutsiness, pluckiness

3. pluck, tweak, pull off, pick offverb

   pull or pull out sharply

   "pluck the flowers off the bush"

   Synonyms:
   fleece, cull, manage, bring off, surcharge, carry off, hustle, pick, deplume, hook, displume, tweak, fine-tune, pull off, pull, roll, overcharge, tear, soak, plunk, negociate, draw away, gazump, rob, deplumate, pick off, plume, draw off

4. hustle, pluck, rollverb

   sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity

   Synonyms:
   roll, vagabond, hook, wind, ramble, cull, wrap, range, rob, pick, stray, rove, wave, deplumate, twine, surcharge, soak, overcharge, pull off, cast, flap, pull, wander, gazump, hustle, plunk, plume, bustle about, revolve, roll up, swan, deplume, roll out, pick off, tramp, turn over, bustle, undulate, tear, drift, tweak, seethe, displume, fleece, roam, wheel

5. overcharge, soak, surcharge, gazump, fleece, plume, pluck, rob, hookverb

   rip off; ask an unreasonable price

   Synonyms:
   crochet, pride, hook, nobble, dress, congratulate, cull, abstract, preen, glom, douse, sneak, rob, drench, hit it up, lift, displume, pick off, pilfer, roll, swipe, surcharge, soak, overcharge, pull off, cop, accost, souse, pull, pawn, deplume, gazump, hustle, solicit, snare, dowse, snarf, shear, plunk, plume, primp, snitch, hock, tweak, pinch, filch, knock off, purloin, pick, deplumate, overload, thieve, sop, addict, cabbage, imbue, inebriate, tear, fleece, intoxicate

6. pluck, plunk, pickverb

   pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion

   "he plucked the strings of his mandolin"

   Synonyms:
   roll, peck, hook, find fault, cull, flump, piece, blame, beak, plank, rob, pick, displume, break up, plonk, deplumate, surcharge, soak, overcharge, pull off, plump, pull, plop, clunk, dive, hustle, clean, foot, clump, plunk, plume, clop, deplume, plunge, pick off, nibble, plunk down, tear, tweak, plump down, gazump, fleece

7. pluck, pull, tear, deplume, deplumate, displumeverb

   strip of feathers

   "pull a chicken"; "pluck the capon"

   Synonyms:
   roll, shoot, hook, pull in, attract, cull, overstretch, perpetrate, commit, rob, pick, snap, deplumate, rive, surcharge, soak, overcharge, pull off, buck, draw out, pull, get out, take out, gazump, hustle, root for, bust, plunk, plume, charge, deplume, pull up, pick off, shoot down, pull out, force, draw, tear, rend, tweak, draw in, extract, rip, displume, rupture, fleece

8. pick, pluck, cullverb

   look for and gather

   "pick mushrooms"; "pick flowers"

   Synonyms:
   fleece, foot, clean, nibble, hustle, pick, surcharge, beak, deplume, gazump, hook, overcharge, tweak, pull off, pull, roll, displume, find fault, tear, soak, plunk, blame, piece, break up, rob, peck, deplumate, pick off, plume, cull

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1. plucknoun

   Synonyms:
   courage, energy, spirit, stamina, pluckiness

2. pluckverb

   Synonyms:
   pull, draw, pick, gather

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. pluck

   Synonyms:
   See Organ pluck
   

How to use pluck in a sentence?

1. Charles de LEUSSE:

   To pluck the fruit of hope, we must be as high as him. (Pour cueillir de l’espoir le fruit, Il faut être aussi haut que lui)

2. Firdausi:

   Leave not the business of to-day to be done to-morrow; for who knoweth what may be thy condition to-morrow? The rose-garden, which to-day is full of flowers, when to-morrow thou wouldst pluck a rose, may not afford thee one.

3. Vivian Diller:

   I think (people) will feel less like they are out of control, if we know that it is in your genes you will get gray hair at a certain age, no matter what you do, you will say, 'OK, I'll just color it. I'm not going to pluck them out, and I know it doesn't mean I'm old and dying,'.

4. Judith Lund:

   In the 1790s there were more whales than they could pluck out of the Gulf of Mexico.

5. Mickey Rooney:

   There was, in fact, a standard studio recipe. Take one young actress, pluck her eyebrows, cap her teeth, shape her hairline, pad as required and throw her into the ring with Andy Hardy. Then wait and see. If the public responded, the starlet became a star.

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