Betekenis van plucked In het Nederlands

• 0 past simple and past participle of pluck

• 1 to pull something, especially with a sudden movement, in order to remove it:

  • Caged birds sometimes pluck out their breast feathers.

  • He plucked the letter from/out of my hand, and ran off with it.

  • Do you pluck your eyebrows (= remove some of the hairs from them to give them a better shape)?

  • He was plucked from obscurity to star in the film.

  • The last passengers were plucked from the ship just seconds before it sank.

• 2 to pull and then release the strings of a musical instrument with your finger to play notes:

  • He sat on the bed, idly plucking (at) the strings of his guitar.