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pickedadjective singled out from a number or group as more to one's likinga picked group of people for the project cherry-picked, choice, chosen, elect, favored, favorite, first-line, handpicked, preferred, select, selected fashionableexclusiveculled, picked over, screened, weeded (out), winnowed (out) of choice average, common, commonplace, ordinary, run-of-the-mill pickedverbpast tense of pickto catch or collect (a crop or natural resource) for human usepick peas and beans from the garden for dinner gathered, harvested, reaped clammed, fished, sealed, shrimped, whaledaccumulated, foraged, garneredgleanedcut, hayed, mowedbagged, captured, hunted, netted, snared, trappedcropped, grew, raised planted, seeded, sowed to decide to accept (someone or something) from a group of possibilitiesI pick you as my partner cherry-picked, chose, culled, elected, handpicked, named, opted (for), preferred, selected, singled (out), tagged, took preselectedappointed, designated, fixed, marked, nominated, set, tabbed, tappedaccepted, adopted, embraced, espousedsettled (on or upon) declined, refused, rejected, turned down disapproved, negatived, repudiated, spurneddiscarded, jettisoned, threw away, threw out to bring (something volatile or intense) into beinghe seems to be trying to pick a fight abetted, brewed, fermented, fomented, incited, instigated, provoked, raised, stirred (up), whipped (up) advanced, cultivated, encouraged, forwarded, fostered, furthered, nourished, nurtured, promoted, sowed, stimulateddetonated, set, set off, triggeredexcited, galvanized, inflamed(also enflamed), inspired, motivated, rousedactivated, energized, enlivened, fired, invigorated, jazzed (up), livened (up), pepped (up), quickened, stimulated, vitalized set in motion bridled, checked, constrained, curbed, discouraged, held, inhibited, regulated, reined (in), restrained, tamedallayed, calmed, quieted, settled, soothed, stilled, subdued, tranquilized(also tranquillized) to eat reluctantly and in small bitesstill suffering from the shock of his wife's death, he could do no more than pick halfheartedly at his food nibbled, pecked grazed, noshed, snackedtasted gorged, gormandized, overate, pigged out, swilled to penetrate or hold (something) with a pointed objectcontinued to pick the block of ice until she was able to extract the shrimp gored, harpooned, impaled, jabbed, lanced, pecked, pierced, pinked, punctured, ran through, skewered, speared, spiked, spitted, stabbed, stuck, transfixed, transpierced spindledperforated, riddledbayoneted(also bayonetted), dirked, gimleted, piked, poniarded, pronged, quilledpinpricked, poked, pricked, punched, thrustcut, knifed, sliced in the 14th century |