plucked
Removed by pulling
Plucked is the past tense of pluck, meaning to pull something off or out with a quick motion.
Feathers are plucked from birds, eyebrows are plucked with tweezers, strings are plucked on guitars.
A plucked chicken has had its feathers removed.
To be plucked from obscurity is to be suddenly discovered and elevated.
Pulled with fine pincers
- eyebrowsHair above eyes
- threadingPassing strand through opening
- waxingCoating for shine
- depilationRemoving hair from skin
epilation · hairless · hair removal · shaping · arched · manicured · preened · beauty
String-plucking technique
- harpPlucked orchestral strings
- guitarFretted stringed instrument
- lutePear-bodied fretted strings
- mandolinPlucked eight-string lute descendant
banjo · sitar · ukulele · oud · dulcimer · zither · lyre · koto
Drew with force
- yankedPulled abruptly
- extractedRemoved from source
- uprootedRemoved from foundation
- tornPulled into pieces
grabbed · snatched · tugged · wrenched · ripped · dislodged · detached · excised
Chose from options
- reapedHarvested or gathered
- gatheredBrought into one place
- orchardFruit tree plantation
- vineyardGrape-growing estate
berries · grapes · apples · cherries · tomatoes · flowers · bouquet · ripe
tweezed
Pulled with fine pincers
depilation · epilation · hairless · hair removal · shaping · arched · manicured · preened · beauty · salon
pizzicato
String-plucking technique
mandolin · banjo · sitar · ukulele · oud · dulcimer · zither · lyre · koto · veena
pulled
Drew with force
torn · grabbed · snatched · tugged · wrenched · ripped · dislodged · detached · excised · picked out
picked
Chose from options
vineyard · berries · grapes · apples · cherries · tomatoes · flowers · bouquet · ripe · handpicked
defeathered
Had plumage removed
duck · game bird · quill · pinfeathers · cleaned · dressed · giblets · carcass · butchered · featherless
nerve
Signal-carrying body fiber
fortitude · moxie · spirit · mettle · spunk · daring · grit · backbone · resolve · tenacity
- groomingbrushing teeth, clean shave, bathe, groomed, haircut
- removedremoved, taken out, eliminated, deleted, erased
- exposedbare, uncovered, revealed, visible, exposed
- music wordsacoustic, melodic, harmonic, rhythmic, bass
- tidyneat, orderly, organized, tidied, uncluttered
- disappearedvanished, disappeared, gone, vanish, faded
- plucking strings
- pluck upSummon inner resolve
- plucking eyebrowsRemoving brow hairs individually
- plucked upGathered one's courage
- pluck up one's courageForce yourself to be bold
- plucking upGathering resolve or courage