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Plucked

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Adjective

1. plucked

of a stringed instrument; sounded with the fingers or a plectrum

2. plucked

having the feathers removed, as from a pelt or a fowl

Example Sentences:
'a plucked chicken'
'an unfeathered goose'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Plucked

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verb
1. (transitive)
to pull off (feathers, fruit, etc) from (a fowl, tree, etc)
2. (when intr, foll by at)
to pull or tug
3. (tr; foll by off, away, etc) archaic
to pull (something) forcibly or violently (from something or someone)
4. (transitive)
to sound (the strings) of (a musical instrument) with the fingers, a plectrum, etc
5. (transitive) another word for strip1 (sense 7)
6. (transitive) slang
to fleece or swindle
noun
7. 
courage, usually in the face of difficulties or hardship
8. 
a sudden pull or tug
9. 
the heart, liver, and lungs, esp of an animal used for food

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Plucked

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verb transitive
1. 
to pull off or out; pick
2. 
to drag or snatch; grab
3. 
to pull feathers or hair from
to pluck a chicken, pluck eyebrows
4. 
to pull at (the strings of a musical instrument) and release quickly with little jerking movements of the fingers
5.  Slang
to rob or swindle
verb intransitive
6. 
to pull; tug; snatch
often with at
7. 
to pluck a musical instrument
noun
8. 
an act of pulling; tug
9. 
an animal's heart, liver, lungs, and windpipe, used for food
10. 
courage to meet danger or difficulty; fortitude

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Plucked

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v. plucked, pluck·ing, plucks
v.tr.
1. To remove or detach by grasping and pulling abruptly with the fingers; pick: pluck a flower; pluck feathers from a chicken.
2. To pull out the hair or feathers of: pluck a chicken.
3. To remove abruptly or forcibly: plucked their child from school in midterm.
4. To give an abrupt pull to; tug at: pluck a sleeve.
5. Music To sound (the strings of an instrument) by pulling and releasing them with the fingers or a plectrum.
v.intr.
To give an abrupt pull; tug.
n.
1. The act or an instance of plucking.
2. Resourceful courage and daring in the face of difficulties; spirit.
3. The heart, liver, windpipe, and lungs of a slaughtered animal.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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