plucked up

Verb

pluck up (third-person singular simple present plucks up, present participle plucking up, simple past and past participle plucked up)

1. (transitive) To remove or acquire by plucking from, for example, the ground; to pick up.
   • "If I could have settled down," I said to Biddy, plucking up the short grass within reach, much as I had once upon a time pulled my feelings out of my hair and kicked them into the brewery wall: […]1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter XVII, in Great Expectations […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 273
2. (intransitive) To become more cheerful.
   • cæsar [taking the dates] My age! [He shakes his head and bites a date]. Yes, Rufio: I am an old man—worn out now—true, quite true. [He gives way to melancholy contemplation, and eats another date]. Achillas is still in his prime: Ptolemy is a boy. [He eats another date, and plucks up a little]....1898, [George] Bernard Shaw, “Cæsar and Cleopatra”, in Three Plays for Puritans: The Devil’s Disciple, Cæsar and Cleopatra, & Captain Brassbound’s Conversion, London: Grant Richards, […], published...
3. (transitive) To summon positive emotion (especially courage); to muster.
   • Thenne was there but sporynge and pluckynge vp of horses and ryghte so they cam to the fyre.
     "Then was there but spurring and plucking up of horses, and right so they came to the fire."1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur Book XX, Chapter viii, leaf 405v

   Synonyms:

   muster up, summon up, work up