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Plucked   /pləkt/   Listen
Plucked

adjective
1.
Of a stringed instrument; sounded with the fingers or a plectrum.
2.
Having the feathers removed, as from a pelt or a fowl.  "An unfeathered goose"


Pluck

verb
(past & past part. plucked; pres. part. plucking)
1.
Pull or pull out sharply.  Synonyms: pick off, pull off, tweak.
2.
Sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity.  Synonyms: hustle, roll.
3.
Rip off; ask an unreasonable price.  Synonyms: fleece, gazump, hook, overcharge, plume, rob, soak, surcharge.
4.
Pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion.  Synonyms: pick, plunk.
5.
Strip of feathers.  Synonyms: deplumate, deplume, displume, pull, tear.  "Pluck the capon"
6.
Look for and gather.  Synonyms: cull, pick.  "Pick flowers"



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"Plucked" Quotes from Famous Books



... The young Apache plucked out his knife and sprang at the girl. A stroke slashed through the thongs that bound her wrists. Her ankles had already been freed. Cochise made a sharp upward gesture. Carmena shook her head ...
— Bloom of Cactus • Robert Ames Bennet
... sister, nay! a single healing leaf Plucked from the bough of yon twelve-fruited tree, Would soothe such anguish,—deeper stabbing grief Has pierced ...
— The Poet at the Breakfast Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
... the Ricksdag were met, my Chancellor thus excusing himself, there was nobody appointed by me to declare to them the cause of their meeting; but rather than the Assembly should be put off, and nothing done, I plucked up my spirits the best I could, and spake to them on the sudden as you heard, although much to ...
— A Journal of the Swedish Embassy in the Years 1653 and 1654, Vol II. • Bulstrode Whitelocke
... leave her there, and Prudence vented her chagrin not alone upon me, but upon my little brother. I became a thorn in her side, and one day, after an especially unpleasant episode in which Harry also figured, she plucked me out, as it were, and cast me for ever from her. From that time I studied at home, where I was a much more valuable economic factor than I ...
— The Story of a Pioneer - With The Collaboration Of Elizabeth Jordan • Anna Howard Shaw
... ground his knuckles into the corners of his eyes, emitting that snore final and querulous of a middle-aged man awakened rudely. With a gesture brusque but flaccid he plucked aside the net and peered around. The bales of cotton cloth, the beads, the brass wire, the bottles of rum, had not been spirited away in the night. So far so good. The faithful servant of his employers was now at liberty to ...
— A Christmas Garland • Max Beerbohm


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