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picking upverbpresent participle of pick up to acquire complete knowledge, understanding, or skill inhe has a knack for picking up a language in a few weeks getting, learning, mastering apprehending, comprehending, grasping, knowing, understandingabsorbing, assimilating, digesting, drinking (in), imbibingascertaining, descrying, detecting, determining, digging up, discerning, discovering, examining, finding out, hearing, hitting (on or upon), running down, scaring up, searching (for), seeing, tracking (down), tumbling (to), unearthingmajoring (in), studyingmemorizing getting the hang of unlearning forgettingmisunderstandingmissing, overlookingdisregarding, ignoring, neglecting to bring together in one body or placepick up all of your things because we have to be off this beach before dark accumulating, amassing, assembling, bulking (up), collecting, concentrating, congregating, constellating, corralling, garnering, gathering, grouping, lumping, rounding up balling, batching, bunching, clustering, huddlingheaping, piling, stackingbanding, brigading, mustering, raising, rallyingflocking, herding, hiving, packing, pressing, swarming, throngingcombining, connecting, joining, linking, merging, pooling, unitingarchiving, arranging, collating, compiling, organizing, systematizingscraping (up or together)re-collecting, regathering, regrouping getting together dispelling, dispersing, dissipating, scattering breaking up, disbanding, disintegrating, dissolving, separating, severing, splitting (up)dismissing, sending to get possession of (something) by giving money in exchange forcould you pick up some milk at the store? buying, copping(slang), purchasing, taking acquiring, gaining, garnering, getting, obtaining, procuring, securing, winningfinancing, paying (for), springing (for)bartering (for), dealing (for), dickering (over), exchanging (for), haggling (for), negotiating (about), trading (for)bargaining (with), chaffering (with), horse-trading (with), paltering (with)bidding, offeringrebuying, repurchasing dealing (in), marketing, merchandising(also merchandizing), retailing, selling, vending to gradually increase inthe boat was just picking up speed when it was rammed by another boat building up, gaining, gathering, growing (in) doubling (in), tripling (in)accruing, accumulating, amassingexciting, stimulatingenhancing, enlarging, enriching, expanding, extending, maximizingboosting, elevating, jacking (up), mounting, ramping (up), stepping up decreasing (in), losing abating, declining (in), diminishing (in), dipping, dwindling, falling (in), lessening, tapering, tapering off to move from a lower to a higher place or positionpick up your feet while I vacuum in front of the sofa boosting, craning, elevating, heaving, hefting, heightening, hiking, hoisting, jacking (up), lifting, perking (up), raising, taking up, upholding, uplifting, upping, upraising ascending, mounting, risingrearing, upending dropping, lowering descending, dipping, falling, pitching, plunging, slippingbearing, depressing, pressing, pushingsinking, submerging to take or keep under one's control by authority of lawpolice picked up the fugitive when she went out to buy food apprehending, arresting, busting(slang), collaring, nabbing, nailing, nicking(British slang), pinching, pulling in, restraining, running in, seizing bagging, capturing, catching, getting, grabbing, grappling, hooking, landing, snapping (up), snaring, snatching, trappingcommitting, confining, detaining, holding, immuring, imprisoning, incarcerating, interning, jailing, jugging, locking (up)binding, enchaining, fettering, handcuffing, manacling, shackling, trammeling(or trammelling)rearrestingremanding discharging emancipating, freeing, liberating, loosening, loosing, releasing, springingunbinding, unchaining to make a place neat and orderly by removing extraneous stuffI thought you said you had picked up, so why are these things still lying around the rec room? cleaning (up), tidying (up) housecleaning, housekeepingcleaning (off), cleaning (up), neatening, policing (up), straightening (up), turning out, unclutteringarranging, ordering cleaning house, setting straight cluttering, disarranging, messing (up) to begin again or return to after an interruptionafter the protestors were removed from the auditorium, the speaker picked up his lecture right where he had left off continuing, proceeding (with), renewing, reopening, restarting, resuming resuscitating, revivingrecrudescing completing, concluding, consummating, ending, finalizing, finishingbelaying, breaking, canning(slang), ceasing, checking, cutting, desisting, discontinuing, dropping, halting, knocking off, leaving off, quitting, scuttling, shutting off, staying, stopping, terminating to make neatthe boy's bedroom looked like it hadn't been picked up in quite a while neatening, redding (up or out)(chiefly dialect), sprucing (up), straightening (up or out), tidying (up), trimming arranging, arraying, classifying, codifying, disposing, drawing up, marshaling(or marshalling), ordering, organizing, ranging, systematizing disarranging, disarraying, discomposing, disheveling(or dishevelling), disordering, disorganizing, disrupting, disturbing, jumbling, messing (up), mixing (up), muddling, mussing, rumpling, scrambling, shuffling, tousling, tumbling, upsetting |