pluck

Definition

  • verb: to pull (something) quickly to remove it
  • verb: to pull or pick off or out
  • synonyms: twitch, pull, spirit

Examples

  • She 'plucks' her eyebrows. [=she regularly removes some of the hairs in her eyebrows to make her eyebrows have a particular shape]

  • We 'plucked' [='chose'] passages at random from the book and read them aloud.

  • Firefighters 'plucked' the child from the top floor of the burning building.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) - What?! What? That's what you think? - Yeah, that's what I think. You know the solution then, don't you? - Go on. - Next time there's a ball... ...pluck up the courage and ask me before somebody else does! And not as a last resort. Well, that's... I mean, that's just completely off the point. (..)
    2005 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire