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Meaning pluck meaning

What does pluck mean?
Definitions in simple English

pluck Verb

— If you pluck something from somewhere, you remove it with a quick movement. She plucked the phone from her bag and dialed. The girl bent down to pluck a rose. Please, pluck this chicken for me. — If you pluck a guitar, violin etc., you pull a single string and then let it go to make a sound. She picked up her guitar and plucked it idly.

pluck

— verb pull or pull out sharply pluck the flowers off the bush — noun (= gutsiness) the trait of showing courage and determination in spite of possible loss or injury — noun the act of pulling and releasing a taut cord — verb pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion he plucked the strings of his mandolin — verb (= pull) strip of feathers pull a chicken pluck the capon — verb (= pick) look for and gather pick mushrooms pick flowers — verb (= hustle) sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity — verb (= overcharge) rip off; ask an unreasonable price

Synonyms pluck synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as pluck?

pluck English » English

pick pull out pull courage gather cull tear off nerve bravery pick off tear pull off guts break off boldness pinch harvest grit cut valour valor spirit nip mettle deplume wrest uproot tweak trim spunk sever scale remove reap pull up plunk plume nip off giblets fortitude fleece displume deplumate daring collect clip yank valorousness valiancy twitch

Topics pluck topics

What do people use pluck to talk about?
Social behavior Prosperity, trouble Respond to trouble

Brave
Social behavior Social activity Music

Musical instrument
Work and occupation Animal husbandry

Poultry raising

  • What words refer to pulling the feathers off of a dead bird?
    pluck
Physical actions Move something Move something in a direction

Take something out of something
Work and occupation Agriculture

Harvest
Work and occupation Hunt and fish

Things done to animals

Conjugation pluck conjugation

How do you conjugate pluck?

pluck · verb

Examples pluck examples

How do I use pluck in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Do you pluck your eyebrows?
He knows how to pluck a chicken.
He has till now been the apple of your eye; but if thine eye offend you, says Scripture, pluck it out. It is better to enter heaven with one eye than hell with two!
You cannot pluck love out of your heart as you would pull a tooth.
One day she went out with the other village children to pluck strawberries.
Or would I were a little burnish'd apple For you to pluck me, gliding by so cold, While sun and shade your robe of lawn will dapple, Your robe of lawn, and your hair's spun gold.
Where did you pluck them?

Movie subtitles

She hasn't the pluck to come and tell me.
I like your pluck.
If I could pluck the stars from Heaven to make a brighter crown for you I'd do it.
They'll pluck those cocky rooster feathers out of your tail -for court-martialing civilians.
I'll pluck your ears!
You can pluck flowers, nuts and herbs. But not ears!
Take from them now the sense of reckoning, lest the opposed numbers pluck their hearts from them.
I would, while it was smiling in my face, have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, and dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you have done to this.
Ha! They pluck out mine eyes.
There's your big scene, if you have the pluck to take it.
Determination, pluck and fortitude worthy of the highest praise.
Or this knife will pluck them out and cast them to the crows.
Tut, were it further off, I'll pluck it down.
If she deny, Lord Hastings, go with him. and from her jealous arms pluck him perforce.
I like your pluck. Come on.
I could say you pluck a hot harp.
Pluck them asunder!
My remedy, then, is to pluck it out.
Delight is to him. who, against the proud gods and commodores of this earth. stands forth his own inexorable self. who destroys all sin though he pluck it out. from under the robes of senators and judges!
Not to pluck every flower you see.
Happiness is like a flower. that you pluck only once.
Do you use a bow, or do you just pluck it?
LIKE FLOWERS IN CONCRETE, OR LIKE TRYING TO PLUCK A NOTE OF MUSIC OUT OF THE AIR AND PUT IT UNDER GLASS TO TREASURE.
Old mr. Death come to pluck me out of the livin'.
Aw, pluck him, he's a ham.
MR. PRESTON, IF I HADN'T HAD TO COME HERE THIS MORNING I DOUBT IF COULD PLUCK UP ENOUGH COURAGE TO ASK YOU WHAT I'M GOING TO ASK YOU NOW.
But the eyes that saw it shall forget that name and all they read. Or this knife will pluck them out and cast them to the crows.
Happiness is like a flower that, you p-p-pluck only once.
Oh, come on lads, where's that famous pluck?
They pluck out mine eyes!
Iwillnotlet predator,like you, pluck innocent orphan.
You've got pluck.

News and current affairs

He was, in the true sense of the word, a self-made man, whose pluck, ambition, drive and inner belief in his destiny carried him to the pinnacle of his achievements.
The Fund, having swooped in to pluck Greece from the abyss, is ready to step back from the brink.
The US does not just pluck surplus foreign savings out of thin air.

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