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pick on

pick on verb: to bully, harass, or make fun of a victim; to bother or harass.

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To bully, harass, or make fun of a victim; to bother or harass.
    • Hey! Quit picking on your brother.
    • Had no friends, picked on 'cause I was weak1998, “Reclaim my Place”, in Follow the Leader, performed by Korn
  2. (transitive) To select (a person) for a task, etc.
    • The teacher picked on me to answer the question.

pick on meaning in Malayalam

pick on in Malayalam

victimize, bully, tyrannize
കുറ്റംകാണുക, ഇരയാക്കുക, പ്രതികാരപാത്രമാക്കുക, ഒറ്റപ്പെടുത്തി പീഡിപ്പിക്കുക, ബലിയാടാക്കുക, പേടിപ്പിക്കുക

Synonyms of pick on

Forms of pick on

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

Words formed from pick on

Questions about pick on

What does pick on mean?
Pick on means to bully, harass, or make fun of a victim; to bother or harass.
What is pick on in Malayalam?
Pick on in Malayalam is കുറ്റംകാണുക, ഇരയാക്കുക, പ്രതികാരപാത്രമാക്കുക. See Pick on meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is pick on?
Pick on is a verb.
What is the past tense of pick on?
The past tense of pick on is picked on.

Words near pick on in the dictionary

  1. pick oakum
  2. pick of the crop
  3. pick of the litter
  4. pick off
  5. pick offs
  6. pick on
  7. pick on someone your own size
  8. pick one's battles
  9. pick one's nose
  10. pick one's way
  11. pick oneself up off the floor

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pick on (page history and authors); pick on (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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