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pick

Main Entry:: ¹ pick
Function:: transitive verb
Language:: English

1 : picar, labrar (con un pico) <he picked the hard soil : picó la tierra dura> 2 : quitar, sacar (poco a poco) <to pick meat off the bones : quitar pedazos de carne de los huesos> 3 : recoger, arrancar (frutas, flores, etc.) 4 select : escoger, elegir 5 provoke : provocar <to pick a quarrel : buscar pleito, buscar pelea> 6 to pick a lock : forzar una cerradura 7 to pick someone's pocket : robarle algo del bolsillo de alguien <someone picked my pocket! : ¡me robaron la cartera del bolsillo!>

intransitive verb

1 nibble : picar, picotear 2 to pick and choose : ser exigente 3 to pick at : tocar, rascarse (una herida, etc.) 4 to pick on tease : mofarse de, atormentar

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