PICK UP

Take and lift upward

• gather up
• lift up

Take up by hand

Example: "He picked up the book and started to read"

Give a passenger or a hitchhiker a lift

Example: "We picked up a hitchhiker on the highway"

Gather or collect

Example: "You can get the results on monday"

• call for
• collect  11
• gather up

Get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally

Example: "I learned that she has two grown-up children"

• discover  14
• find out
• get a line
• get wind
• get word
• hear  7
• learn  5
• see  3

• get the goods
• wise up
• catch  12
• ascertain  11

Get in addition, as an increase

Example: "The candidate picked up thousands of votes after his visit to the nursing home"

Take into custody

Example: "The police nabbed the suspected criminals"

• apprehend  17
• arrest  6
• collar  8
• cop  7
• nab  5
• nail  4

Buy casually or spontaneously

Example: "I picked up some food for a snack"

Register (perceptual input)

Example: "Pick up a signal"

• receive  12

• comprehend  20
• perceive  15

• hear  7

Lift out or reflect from a background

Example: "The scarf picks up the color of the skirt"

Meet someone for sexual purposes

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

Fill with high spirits; fill with optimism

Example: "Music can uplift your spirits"

• elate  5
• intoxicate  19
• lift up
• uplift  11

• excite  15
• shake  12
• stimulate  11
• stir  4

• beatify  15
• puff  12
• beatify  15
• exalt  12
• • exhilarate  20
  • inebriate  11
  • thrill  9
  • tickle pink
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Improve significantly; go from bad to good

Example: "Her performance in school picked up"

• turn around

Perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily

Example: "I caught the aroma of coffee"

• catch  12

Eat by pecking at, like a bird

• peck  12

Gain or regain energy

Example: "I picked up after a nap"

• gain vigor
• percolate  13
• perk  10
• perk up