Dictionary Entry
pluck
pluck is a 5-letter English word with 18 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To pull; to draw. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 17 · 18 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To pull; to draw.
- 2transitive verb
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.
- 3transitive verb
To strip of, or as of, feathers; as, to pluck a fowl.
- 4transitive verb
To reject at an examination for degrees.
- 5intransitive verb
To make a motion of pulling or twitching; -- usually with at; as, to pluck at one's gown.
- 6noun
The act of plucking; a pull; a twitch.
- 7noun
The heart, liver, and lights of an animal.
- 8noun
Spirit; courage; indomitable resolution; fortitude.
- 9noun
The act of plucking, or the state of being plucked, at college. See Pluck. t., 4.
- 10transitive verb
The lyrie.
- 11noun
the act of pulling and releasing a taut cord
- 12noun
the trait of showing courage and determination in spite of possible loss or injury
Synonyms
- 13verb
look for and gather
"pick mushrooms"
"pick flowers"
- 14verb
strip of feathers
"pull a chicken"
"pluck the capon"
- 15verb
pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion
"he plucked the strings of his mandolin"
- 16verb
pull or pull out sharply
"pluck the flowers off the bush"
Synonyms
- 17verb
rip off; ask an unreasonable price
- 18verb
sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity
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