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pick
A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.
A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock.
A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair.
To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
"Don't pick at that scab."
To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached; to harvest an entire plant by removing it from the ground.
"It's time to pick the tomatoes."
To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.
"She picked flowers in the meadow."
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