pickest

Verb

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

1. To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
   • Don't pick at that scab.
2. To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached; to harvest an entire plant by removing it from the ground.
   • It's time to pick the tomatoes.
3. To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.
   • She picked flowers in the meadow.
4. To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.
   • to pick rags
5. To remove something from somewhere with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth.
   • to pick the teeth; to pick a bone; to pick a goose; to pick a pocket
6. To decide upon, from a set of options; to select.
   • I'll pick the one with the nicest name.

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