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pick holes

pick holes verb: to find weaknesses, errors or imperfections (in).

Verb

pick holes (third-person singular simple present picks holes, present participle picking holes, simple past and past participle picked holes)

  1. (idiomatic, intransitive) To find weaknesses, errors or imperfections (in).
    • The publication of their results is a call for help to pick holes in their methods, and save physics as we now know it.2011 September 23, Jason Palmer, “Light speed: Flying into fantasy”, in BBC News

Forms of pick holes

third-person singular presentpicks holes
present participlepicking holes
past participlepicked holes
pastpicked holes

Questions about pick holes

What does pick holes mean?
Pick holes means to find weaknesses, errors or imperfections (in).
What part of speech is pick holes?
Pick holes is a verb.
What is the past tense of pick holes?
The past tense of pick holes is picked holes.

Words near pick holes in the dictionary

  1. pick gooseberry
  2. pick gun
  3. pick guns
  4. pick hammer
  5. pick hammers
  6. pick holes
  7. pick it up
  8. pick me
  9. pick mes
  10. pick oakum
  11. pick of the crop

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