plucked
/plʌkt/ adjective C1- Having had the feathers, hair, etc. removed by plucking.
- Played by plucking.
- Exposed, embarrassed, humiliated, or caught publicly.
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“True, but he has cost us heavily in time which might have been spent in good hunting, in wounds, in hair--I am half plucked along my back--and last of all, in honor.
Diana, turning pale with pity, plucked the wreath from Anne’s hair and squeezed her hand.
A Dove sitting on a tree overhanging the water plucked a leaf and let it fall into the stream close to her.
Oh, if I could only have plucked them out today.
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