PICKED UP Synonyms: 395 Similar and Opposite Words

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as in tidy

being clean and in good order if your room is all picked up, you can go to the party

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verb

past tense of pick up

as in mastered

to acquire complete knowledge, understanding, or skill in he has a knack for picking up a language in a few weeks

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as in assembled

to bring together in one body or place pick up all of your things because we have to be off this beach before dark

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as in bought

to get possession of (something) by giving money in exchange for could you pick up some milk at the store?

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as in gained

to gradually increase in the boat was just picking up speed when it was rammed by another boat

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as in lifted

to move from a lower to a higher place or position pick up your feet while I vacuum in front of the sofa

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as in arrested

to take or keep under one's control by authority of law police picked up the fugitive when she went out to buy food

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as in cleaned house

to make a place neat and orderly by removing extraneous stuff I thought you said you had picked up, so why are these things still lying around the rec room?

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as in resumed

to begin again or return to after an interruption after the protestors were removed from the auditorium, the speaker picked up his lecture right where he had left off

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as in trimmed

to make neat the boy's bedroom looked like it hadn't been picked up in quite a while

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Recent Examples of picked up

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In this game, the hitters picked up starter Jack Kochanowicz, who was charged with three runs in the fifth inning and five in the game. —

Jeff Fletcher, Oc Register, 27 May 2026 Styles’ shoes picked up his white leather belt, which cinched powder blue voluminous pleated trousers. —

Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 26 May 2026 Past observations by Hubble and other observatories have picked up outflows of gas from NGC 1266, lending further support to this theory of why so few new stars are being born there. —

Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 19 May 2026 Every starting hitter picked up at least one hit, with Woita, Jordan, and Durnin also picking up multi-hit performances. —

Jace Denison, Kansas City Star, 19 May 2026 As a long outside corner that has long admired Patrick Surtain II, a former student of Parker’s with the Denver Broncos, Moore has already picked up on some wisdom from his new coach. —

Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 May 2026 Rights for James Gray’s Paper Tiger, which is also in the running for a Palme d’Or, have been acquired by the group’s WW Entertainment for Benelux and Scanbox for Scandinavia, which has also picked up Nicolas Winding Refn’s Out of Competition screener Her Private Hell for the region. —

Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 12 May 2026 Splendid Film has acquired the film for Germany, Austria and Switzerland; PT Prima Cinema Multimedia has taken Indonesia; Media4Fun has closed Poland; Multivision India has secured the Indian Subcontinent; and Izagur Media has picked up Mongolia. —

Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 12 May 2026 The left-wing Green party also gained 441 local council seats and the centrist Liberal Democrats picked up 155, according to the national broadcaster the BBC. —

Isa Soares, CNN Money, 12 May 2026

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Keeping your yard tidy will also help limit insect activity and spiders.

— Joan Morris, Mercury News, 25 May 2026
But a visually unappealing toilet seat could make an otherwise tidy bathroom look unexpectedly filthy—and there may really be more dirt and germs there than meet the eye, too.

— Louise Parks, Martha Stewart, 25 May 2026