Word Meanings - PLUCK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To reject at an examination for degrees. C. Bronté. To pluck away, to pull away, or to separate by pulling; to tear away. -- To pluck down, to pull down; to demolish; to reduce to a lower state. -- to pluck off, to pull or tear off; as, to pluck

Additional info about word: PLUCK

To reject at an examination for degrees. C. Bronté. To pluck away, to pull away, or to separate by pulling; to tear away. -- To pluck down, to pull down; to demolish; to reduce to a lower state. -- to pluck off, to pull or tear off; as, to pluck off the skin. -- to pluck up. To tear up by the roots or from the foundation; to eradicate; to exterminate; to destroy; as, to pluck up a plant; to pluk up a nation. Jer. xii. 17. To gather up; to summon; as, to pluck up courage. (more info) plukka, Dan. plukke, Sw. plocka. 1. To pull; to draw. Its own nature . . . plucks on its own dissolution. Je 2. Especially, to pull with sudden force or effort, or to pull off or out from something, with a twitch; to twitch; also, to gather, to pick; as, to pluck feathers from a fowl; to pluck hair or wool from a skin; to pluck grapes. I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude. Milton. E'en children followed, with endearing wile, And plucked his gown to share the good man's smile. Goldsmith. 3. To strip of, or as of, feathers; as, to pluck a fowl. They which pass by the way do pluck her. Ps. lxxx.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PLUCK)

• Courage
• Bravery
• boldness
• valor
• pluck
• fortitude
• resolution
• gallantry
• fearlessness
• intrepidity
• Pick
• Choose
• cull
• select
• gather
• eliminate
• enucleate
• extract
• glean
• Pull
• Draw
• drag
• adduce
• tug
• haul
• Snatch
• Twitch
• pull
• catch
• grasp
• gripe
• clutch

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PLUCK)

• Liberate
• release
• emancipate
• Lump
• confound
• sweep

Related words: (words related to PLUCK)

• CONFOUNDED
  1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott.
• VALOROUS
  Possessing or exhibiting valor; brave; courageous; valiant; intrepid. -- Val"or*ous*ly, adv.
• RELEASE
  To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
• ELIMINATE
  To cause to disappear from an equation; as, to eliminate an unknown quantity. 3. To set aside as unimportant in a process of inductive inquiry; to leave out of consideration. Eliminate errors that have been gathering and accumulating. Lowth. 4.
• VALORIZATION
  Act or process of attempting to give an arbitrary market value or price to a commodity by governmental interference, as by maintaining a purchasing fund, making loans to producers to enable them to hold their products, etc.; -- used chiefly of such
• PLUCKER TUBE
  A vacuum tube, used in spectrum analysis, in which the part through which the discharge takes place is a capillary tube, thus producing intense incandescence of the contained gases. Crookes tube.
• SNATCH
  1. To take or seize hastily, abruptly, or without permission or ceremony; as, to snatch a loaf or a kiss. When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take. Pope. 2. To seize and transport away; to rap. "Snatch me to heaven." Thomson. Syn. -- To
• RESOLUTIONER
  One who makes a resolution; one who joins with others in a declaration or resolution; specifically, one of a party in the Scottish Church in the 17th century. He was sequestrated afterwards as a Resolutioner. Sir W. Scott.
• GRASP
  1. To seize and hold by clasping or embracing with the fingers or arms; to catch to take possession of. Thy hand is made to grasp a palmer's staff. Shak. 2. To lay hold of with the mind; to become thoroughly acquainted or conversant with;
• EXTRACTABLE; EXTRACTIBLE
  Capable of being extracted.
• CATCHWORK
  A work or artificial watercourse for throwing water on lands that lie on the slopes of hills; a catchdrain.
• ADDUCE
  To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege. Reasons . . . were adduced on both sides. Macaulay. Enough could not be adduced to satisfy the purpose of illustration.
• CATCHER
  The player who stands behind the batsman to catch the ball. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, catches.
• PLUCKED
  Having courage and spirit.
• CATCHWORD
  The first word of any page of a book after the first, inserted at the right hand bottom corner of the preceding page for the assistance of the reader. It is seldom used in modern printing. 3. A word or phrase caught up and repeated for effect; as,
• CATCH TITLE
  A short expressive title used for abbreviated book lists, etc.
• GLEANING
  The act of gathering after reapers; that which is collected by gleaning. Glenings of natural knowledge. Cook.
• CATCHPENNY
  Made or contrived for getting small sums of money from the ignorant or unwary; as, a catchpenny book; a catchpenny show. -- n.
• SWEEPAGE
  The crop of hay got in a meadow.
• CHOOSER
  One who chooses; one who has the power or right of choosing; an elector. Burke.
• SCATCH
  A kind of bit for the bridle of a horse; -- called also scatchmouth. Bailey.
• SADDUCEEISM; SADDUCISM
  The tenets of the Sadducees.
• ENSWEEP
  To sweep over or across; to pass over rapidly. Thomson.
• MEGATHEROID
  One of a family of extinct edentates found in America. The family includes the megatherium, the megalonyx, etc.
• ACCOURAGE
  To encourage.
• BEAUCATCHER
  A small flat curl worn on the temple by women.
• CONY-CATCH
  To deceive; to cheat; to trick. Take heed, Signor Baptista, lest you be cony-catched in the this business. Shak.
• ENCOURAGER
  One who encourages, incites, or helps forward; a favorer. The pope is . . . a great encourager of arts. Addison.
• MISCHOOSE
  To choose wrongly. Milton.
• WORD-CATCHER
  One who cavils at words.
• TAXGATHERER
  One who collects taxes or revenues. -- Tax"gath`er*ing, n.