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picked holes

picked holes is the simple past and past participle of pick holes.

Meaning of pick holes

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

Questions about picked holes

What is picked holes the simple past and past participle of?
Picked holes is the simple past and past participle of pick holes.

Words near picked holes in the dictionary

  1. picked fault
  2. picked fights
  3. picked flowers
  4. picked from a hat
  5. picked gooseberry
  6. picked holes
  7. picked it up
  8. picked oakum
  9. picked off
  10. picked on
  11. picked one's battles

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