plucking

Speech parts

1. plucking - Noun

2. plucking - Verb

Meaning

of Pluck

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

take fleece remove roll catch crop collect pick pull gathering collecting extract harvest pulling hook

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Antonyms

success release plant repulse push compensate

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Phrases with the word

the old woman is plucking her goose ripe for the plucking

Examples

By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower. Rabindranath Tagore

The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to procure the largest quantity of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing. Jean-Baptiste Colbert

Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there. Beverly Cleary

In plucking the fruit of memory one runs the risk of spoiling its bloom. Joseph Conrad

Many a man has been guarding the bush and another plucking the fruit. Manx Proverb

You haven't yet caught the bird, still you are already plucking her. Hungarian Proverb

Close letter words and terms

pluckiest pluckily pluckiness plucking post pluckless plucklessness