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pickingnoun the act or process of selectingthe picking of new recruits went on for three days choice, choosing, election, selecting, selection optionappointment, assignment, designation, naming, nominationdecision to catch or collect (a crop or natural resource) for human usepick peas and beans from the garden for dinner gathering, harvesting, reaping clamming, fishing, sealing, shrimping, whalingaccumulating, foraging, garneringgleaningcutting, haying, mowingbagging, capturing, hunting, netting, snaring, trappingcropping, growing, raising planting, seeding, sowing to decide to accept (someone or something) from a group of possibilitiesI pick you as my partner cherry-picking, choosing, culling, electing, handpicking, naming, opting (for), preferring, selecting, singling (out), tagging, taking preselectingappointing, designating, fixing, marking, nominating, setting, tabbing, tappingaccepting, adopting, embracing, espousingsettling (on or upon) declining, refusing, rejecting, turning down disapproving, negativing, repudiating, spurningdiscarding, jettisoning, throwing away, throwing out to bring (something volatile or intense) into beinghe seems to be trying to pick a fight abetting, brewing, fermenting, fomenting, inciting, instigating, provoking, raising, stirring (up), whipping (up) advancing, cultivating, encouraging, forwarding, fostering, furthering, nourishing, nurturing, promoting, sowing, stimulatingdetonating, setting, setting off, triggeringexciting, galvanizing, inflaming(also enflaming), inspiring, motivating, rousingactivating, energizing, enlivening, firing, invigorating, jazzing (up), livening (up), pepping (up), quickening, stimulating, vitalizing setting in motion bridling, checking, constraining, curbing, discouraging, holding, inhibiting, regulating, reining (in), restraining, tamingallaying, calming, quieting, settling, soothing, stilling, subduing, tranquilizing(also tranquillizing) 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 nibbling, pecking grazing, noshing, snackingtasting gorging, gormandizing, overeating, pigging out, swilling to penetrate or hold (something) with a pointed objectcontinued to pick the block of ice until she was able to extract the shrimp goring, harpooning, impaling, jabbing, lancing, pecking, piercing, pinking, puncturing, running through, skewering, spearing, spiking, spitting, stabbing, sticking, transfixing, transpiercing spindlingperforating, riddlingbayoneting(also bayonetting), dirking, gimleting, piking, poniarding, pronging, quillingpinpricking, poking, pricking, punching, thrustingcutting, knifing, slicing |