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verb

Pluck v. t. (past & past part. plucked; pres. part. plucking)

1.

To pull; to draw. "Its own nature... plucks on its own dissolution."

2.

Especially, to pull with sudden force or effort, or to pull off or out from something, with a twitch; to twitch; also, to gather, to pick; as, to pluck feathers from a fowl; to pluck hair or wool from a skin; to pluck grapes. "I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude." "E'en children followed, with endearing wile, And plucked his gown to share the good man's smile."

3.

To strip of, or as of, feathers; as, to pluck a fowl. "They which pass by the way do pluck her."

4.

(Eng. Universities) To reject at an examination for degrees.

To pluck away, to pull away, or to separate by pulling; to tear away.

To pluck down, to pull down; to demolish; to reduce to a lower state.

to pluck off, to pull or tear off; as, to pluck off the skin.

to pluck up.

(a)

To tear up by the roots or from the foundation; to eradicate; to exterminate; to destroy; as, to pluck up a plant; to pluck up a nation.

(b)

To gather up; to summon; as, to pluck up courage.

Pluck v. i. To make a motion of pulling or twitching; usually with at; as, to pluck at one's gown.

adjective

Plucked adj. Having courage and spirit. (R.)

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Etymology of 'Plucked'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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— Bloom of Cactus • Robert Ames Bennet

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... 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 ...

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... 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 ...

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