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Synonyms for pluck
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Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
pluck
Synonyms:
eradicate, root out, exterminate
Princeton's WordNet
gutsiness, pluck, pluckinessnoun
the trait of showing courage and determination in spite of possible loss or injury
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gutsiness, pluckinesspluckverb
the act of pulling and releasing a taut cord
Synonyms:
gutsiness, pluckinesspluck, 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 offhustle, pluck, rollverb
sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity
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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, wheelovercharge, 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, intoxicatepluck, plunk, pickverb
pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion
"he plucked the strings of his mandolin"
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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, fleecepluck, 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, fleecepick, 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
Editors Contribution
plort
north yorkshire dialect.
plort that brace of pheasant, and we’ll roast them for dinner.
Dictionary of English Synonymes
pluckverb
plucknoun
Synonyms:
spirit, courage, resolution, manhood, indomitableness, backbone, determination, energy, force, mettle, nerve, hardihood, force of character, strength of will
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD
pluck
Synonyms:
See Organ pluck
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#605 | range | |
#1022 | force | |
#1453 | charge | |
#1475 | abstract | |
#1809 | clean | |
#1852 | piece | |
#1899 | wind | |
#2008 | foot | |
#2096 | pick | |
#2217 | manage | |
#2394 | cast | |
#2595 | roll | |
#2868 | dress | |
#3043 | wheel | |
#3233 | wave | |
#3350 | draw | |
#3810 | pull | |
#4105 | commit | |
#4158 | rob | |
#4499 | lift | |
#4700 | pride | |
#5175 | shoot | |
#5452 | wrap | |
#5613 | hook | |
#5757 | extract | |
#7140 | dive | |
#7199 | blame | |
#7321 | snap | |
#7432 | rip | |
#7554 | attract | |
#8285 | buck | |
#8969 | fleece | |
#9356 | tear | |
#9382 | cop | |
#10368 | swan | |
#10713 | bust | |
#11779 | drift | |
#12849 | plump | |
#14072 | addict | |
#14145 | shear | |
#14613 | flap | |
#15567 | crochet | |
#15970 | overload | |
#16203 | sneak | |
#16414 | cabbage | |
#17127 | pinch | |
#17166 | surcharge | |
#17234 | rove | |
#17542 | wander | |
#17739 | peck | |
#18651 | stray | |
#18963 | hustle | |
#19308 | tweak | |
#19340 | soak | |
#19555 | plunge | |
#21425 | solicit | |
#22436 | snare | |
#22890 | plume | |
#22933 | plank | |
#23745 | pawn | |
#24292 | rupture | |
#24649 | congratulate | |
#25040 | tramp | |
#25519 | roam | |
#25667 | sop | |
#28085 | pluck | |
#28847 | eradicate | |
#36328 | revolve | |
#36945 | beak | |
#37262 | bustle | |
#38462 | swipe | |
#38590 | ramble | |
#39493 | vagabond | |
#41879 | cull | |
#43915 | twine | |
#45802 | rive | |
#45906 | hock | |
#48942 | clump | |
#52833 | nibble | |
#55788 | rend | |
#61869 | snitch | |
#65325 | plop | |
#67252 | drench | |
#68362 | exterminate | |
#85954 | overcharge | |
#89565 | perpetrate | |
#92066 | plonk | |
#95819 | plunk | |
#96725 | imbue | |
#96993 | snarf | |
#110802 | douse | |
#117701 | clop | |
#118633 | preen | |
#125262 | clunk | |
#140126 | primp | |
#145615 | dowse | |
#163284 | seethe | |
#176380 | glom | |
#176519 | filch | |
#199693 | pilfer | |
#204476 | undulate | |
#205400 | accost | |
#227814 | intoxicate | |
#233318 | overstretch | |
#323789 | thieve |
How to use pluck in a sentence?
Don't let others to spoil your inner peace and don't allow yourself to pluck your fortitude by rot raps of anyone...
In the 1790s there were more whales than they could pluck out of the Gulf of Mexico.
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)
You're not going to pluck a Steve Jobs out of a genie jar, apple Music needed to make some moves.
The Puritan through life’s sweet garden goes to pluck the thorn and cast away the rose.
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