verb (v)

• take and lift upward(verb.motion)

  Synonym:
  gather up, lift up
  

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• take up by hand(verb.contact)

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• give a passenger or a hitchhiker a lift(verb.motion)

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• gather or collect(verb.possession)

  Example:
  They pick up our trash twice a week.
  

  Synonym:
  call for, collect, gather up
  

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• get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally(verb.cognition)

  Synonym:
  discover, find out, get a line, get wind, get word, hear, learn, see
  

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• get in addition, as an increase(verb.possession)

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• take into custody(verb.contact)

  Synonym:
  apprehend, arrest, collar, cop, nab, nail
  

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• buy casually or spontaneously(verb.possession)

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• register (perceptual input)(verb.perception)

  Example:
  Pick up a signal.
  

  Synonym:
  receive
  

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• lift out or reflect from a background(verb.change)

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• meet someone for sexual purposes(verb.social)

  Example:
  He always tries to pick up girls in bars.
  

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• fill with high spirits; fill with optimism(verb.emotion)

  Synonym:
  elate, intoxicate, lift up, uplift
  Antonym:
  cast down, deject, demoralise, demoralize, depress, dismay, dispirit, get down
  

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• improve significantly; go from bad to good(verb.change)

  Synonym:
  turn around
  

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• perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily(verb.perception)

  Synonym:
  catch
  

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• eat by pecking at, like a bird(verb.consumption)

  Synonym:
  peck
  

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• gain or regain energy(verb.body)

  Synonym:
  gain vigor, percolate, perk, perk up
  

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