Synonyms: pick up, percolate, perk, perk up, gain vigor
Definition: gain or regain energy
Usage: I picked up after a nap
Similar words: convalesce, recover, recuperate
Definition: get over an illness or shock
Usage: The patient is recuperating
Synonyms: pick up, turn around
Definition: improve significantly; go from bad to good
Usage: Her performance in school picked up
Similar words: meliorate, better, ameliorate, improve
Definition: get better
Usage: The weather improved toward evening
Synonyms: pick up
Definition: lift out or reflect from a background
Usage: The scarf picks up the color of the skirt; His eyes picked up his smile
Similar words: set off, bring out
Definition: direct attention to, as if by means of contrast
Usage: This dress accentuates your nice figure!; I set off these words by brackets
Definition: eat by pecking at, like a bird
Similar words: eat
Definition: take in solid food
Usage: She was eating a banana; What did you eat for dinner last night?
Synonyms: pick up
Definition: take up by hand
Usage: He picked up the book and started to read
Similar words: touch
Definition: make physical contact with, come in contact with
Usage: Touch the stone for good luck; She never touched her husband
Synonyms: collar, pick up, cop, apprehend, arrest, nab, nail
Definition: take into custody
Usage: the police nabbed the suspected criminals
Similar words: prehend, seize, clutch
Definition: take hold of; grab
Usage: The sales clerk quickly seized the money on the counter; She clutched her purse; The mother seized her child by the arm; Birds of prey often seize small mammals
Synonyms: intoxicate, elate, pick up, lift up, uplift
Definition: fill with high spirits; fill with optimism
Usage: Music can uplift your spirits
Similar words: excite, stimulate, stir, shake, shake up
Definition: stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of
Usage: These stories shook the community; the civil war shook the country
Synonyms: pick up
Definition: give a passenger or a hitchhiker a lift
Usage: We picked up a hitchhiker on the highway
Similar words: transport
Definition: move something or somebody around; usually over long distances
Synonyms: lift up, pick up, gather up
Definition: take and lift upward
Similar words: lift, raise, get up, bring up, elevate
Definition: raise from a lower to a higher position
Usage: Raise your hands; Lift a load
Definition: register (perceptual input)
Usage: pick up a signal
Similar words: comprehend, perceive
Definition: to become aware of through the senses
Usage: I could perceive the ship coming over the horizon
Definition: perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily
Usage: I caught the aroma of coffee; He caught the allusion in her glance; ears open to catch every sound; The dog picked up the scent; Catch a glimpse
Similar words: comprehend, perceive
Definition: to become aware of through the senses
Usage: I could perceive the ship coming over the horizon
Synonyms: pick up
Definition: buy casually or spontaneously
Usage: I picked up some food for a snack
Definition: obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction
Usage: The family purchased a new car; The conglomerate acquired a new company; She buys for the big department store
Synonyms: collect, call for, pick up, gather up
Definition: gather or collect
Usage: You can get the results on Monday; She picked up the children at the day care center; They pick up our trash twice a week
Definition: come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
Usage: She got a lot of paintings from her uncle; They acquired a new pet; Get your results the next day; Get permission to take a few days off from work
Synonyms: pick up
Definition: get in addition, as an increase
Usage: The candidate picked up thousands of votes after his visit to the nursing home
Definition: come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
Usage: She got a lot of paintings from her uncle; They acquired a new pet; Get your results the next day; Get permission to take a few days off from work
Synonyms: pick up
Definition: meet someone for sexual purposes
Usage: he always tries to pick up girls in bars
Similar words: meet, get together
Definition: get together socially or for a specific purpose