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pick over

pick over verb: to choose all of the desirable items from (an array of options); to look for the most desirable items among.

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To choose all of the desirable items from (an array of options); to look for the most desirable items among.

pick over meaning in Nepali

pick over in Nepali

to pick over, to cull
छान्नु chānnu

Forms of pick over

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

Questions about pick over

What does pick over mean?
Pick over means to choose all of the desirable items from (an array of options); to look for the most desirable items among.
What is pick over in Nepali?
Pick over in Nepali is छान्नु (chānnu). See Pick over meaning in Nepali.
What part of speech is pick over?
Pick over is a verb.
What is the past tense of pick over?
The past tense of pick over is picked over.

Words near pick over in the dictionary

  1. pick one's nose
  2. pick one's way
  3. pick oneself up off the floor
  4. pick out
  5. pick out of a hat
  6. pick over
  7. pick packer
  8. pick packers
  9. pick quarrels
  10. pick scrape
  11. pick scrapes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pick over (page history and authors); छान्नु (Nepali) (page history and authors). 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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