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PICK OFF
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Pull or pull out sharply
Example:
pluck the flowers off the bush
Synonyms:
pick off; pluck; pull off; tweak
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "pick off" is one way to...):
draw; pull (cause to move by pulling)
Verb group:
draw away; draw off; pull off (remove by drawing or pulling)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pick off"):
tweeze (pluck with tweezers)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sense 2
Meaning:
Shoot one by one
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "pick off" is one way to...):
pip; shoot (kill by firing a missile)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
