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picking onphrasepresent participle of pick on to make timid or fearful by or as if by threatsPicking on others is not tolerated at this school. blackjacking, bogarting, browbeating, bulldozing, bullying, bullyragging(also ballyragging), cowing, hectoring, intimidating, mau-mauing, strong-arming blustering, trash-talkingaffrighting, alarming(also alaruming), frightening, horrifying, scaring, shocking, spooking, startling, terrifyingmenacing, terrorizing, threateningbadgering, harassing, houndingbludgeoning, coercing, compelling, constraining, dragooning, forcing, making, obliging, pressing, pressuring, pushing arounddemoralizing, psyching (out), unmanning, unnervingdiscomposing, disconcerting, disquieting, distressing, disturbing, perturbing, upsetting cheering, comforting, consoling, reassuring, solacing, soothingemboldening, encouraging, heartening, steelingconvincing, persuading to attack repeatedly with mean put-downs or insults"Stop picking on your siblings!" baiting, hassling, hazing, heckling, needling, riding, taunting, teasing deriding, gibing(or jibing), jeering, mocking, ridiculingannoying, bothering, bugging, burning (up), chafing, fretting, frosting, galling, getting, gnawing (at), grating, griping, hacking (off), hagriding, irking, irritating, itching, nagging, narking(British), nettling, peeving, pestering, piquing, putting out, rasping, riling, ruffling, spiting, troubling, vexingaggravating, exasperating, goading, testing, tryingaggrieving, agitating, bedeviling, beleaguering, discomforting, disturbing, perturbingbadgering, dogging, houndingbrowbeating, bullying, hectoringharassing, harrying, persecuting, plaguing, terrorizing, tormenting, torturing making game of |