PICKED UP Synonyms: 395 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

as in tidy

being clean and in good order if your room is all picked up, you can go to the party

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verb

past tense of pick up

as in mastered

to acquire complete knowledge, understanding, or skill in he has a knack for picking up a language in a few weeks

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as in assembled

to bring together in one body or place pick up all of your things because we have to be off this beach before dark

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as in bought

to get possession of (something) by giving money in exchange for could you pick up some milk at the store?

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as in gained

to gradually increase in the boat was just picking up speed when it was rammed by another boat

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as in lifted

to move from a lower to a higher place or position pick up your feet while I vacuum in front of the sofa

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as in arrested

to take or keep under one's control by authority of law police picked up the fugitive when she went out to buy food

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as in cleaned house

to make a place neat and orderly by removing extraneous stuff I thought you said you had picked up, so why are these things still lying around the rec room?

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as in resumed

to begin again or return to after an interruption after the protestors were removed from the auditorium, the speaker picked up his lecture right where he had left off

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as in trimmed

to make neat the boy's bedroom looked like it hadn't been picked up in quite a while

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Recent Examples of picked up

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Haley, Kotb’s first daughter, seems to have picked up her mother’s spirit of giving. — Diane J. Cho, PEOPLE, 9 Aug. 2026 Investigators discovered a camera had picked up Holbrook's license plate near Joe Shymanski's house in Maryland. — Nikki Battiste, CBS News, 9 Aug. 2026 Online orders should be placed 24 hours ahead of time, and can be shipped or picked up. — Sophie Lindberg, Kansas City Star, 9 Aug. 2026 Local police picked up Brun at Keliikuli’s house in Kalaheo, and he was held without bail. — Guthrie Scrimgeour, Rolling Stone, 2 Aug. 2026 Fatal Influence may have picked up a huge win in a six-woman tag team match against Nikki Bella, Brie Bella and Page at SummerSlam on Saturday night, but the real stunning moment came moments after the match was finished. — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 2 Aug. 2026 Her hair was worn in signature blown out waves that picked up the caramel shades in her long brunette hair, her parting swept slightly to the side. — Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 2 Aug. 2026 Maggie Foxx picked up the league’s first hit on a two-run single for Los Angeles in the first inning, and Denae Benites recorded the WPBL’s first home run, a line shot over Mo’ne Davis’ head in centerfield in the fourth inning. — Dan Freedman, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026 Jarren Duran picked up Boston’s fourth solo homer in the sixth inning off reliever Kyle Hurt. — ABC News, 2 Aug. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for picked up

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Scattered along the walls of the studio were tidy heaps of scarves and mesh, rainbows of stripes, every shade of ballet pink, Uggs of every height.

— Claire Salinda, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2026
Deadheading daisies helps maintain a tidy appearance, stimulates new growth, and encourages prolific blooms.

— The Spruce, The Spruce, 11 Aug. 2026

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The Singaporean dancers who have mastered kuda kepang are not necessarily of Javanese origin.

— H.M.A. Leow, JSTOR Daily, 7 Aug. 2026
Joanna Gaines and the team at Magnolia have mastered the art of storytelling, creating home collections that feel both elevated and effortlessly livable.

— Casey DelBasso, ABC News, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of mastered

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Shuttle missions deployed and serviced satellites, launched the Hubble Space Telescope, assembled much of the International Space Station, and flew 135 missions over three decades.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 9 Aug. 2026
That mind is a model, an enormous statistical object assembled by feeding it a quantity of text and images nobody has ever fully itemized.

— Jason Snyder, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2026

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The Lakers were valued last year at $10 billion — a record for a pro sports team — when Mark Walter purchased a controlling stake from the Buss family, which had owned the team since 1979.

— Greg Beacham, Chicago Tribune, 12 Aug. 2026
Iger and Josh Kushner, the venture capitalist who founded Thrive Capital, are buying the team from Mark Walter, who purchased a controlling stake from the Buss family just 14 months ago at a $10 billion valuation, making Walter’s return roughly 21%.

— Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 12 Aug. 2026

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Shares have jumped 48% year to date and gained 2% in the premarket.

— Liz Napolitano, CNBC, 11 Aug. 2026
In July, OpenAI disclosed that an autonomous AI agent escaped the boundaries of a cybersecurity evaluation and ultimately gained unauthorized access to Hugging Face's production infrastructure.

— Emil Sayegh, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of gained

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Tromso, the northernmost football club in the world to win a major national trophy, having lifted the Norwegian Cup in 1986 and 1996, are tricky opponents.

— Andy Naylor, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2026
WorldView-3 lifted off on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California and has been orbiting Earth ever since.

— Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 13 Aug. 2026

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An 18-year-old Los Banos resident was arrested on suspicion of murder after a man was found shot to death early Sunday in Turlock, police said.

— Cecilio Padilla, CBS News, 10 Aug. 2026
Manuel Hernandez, 46, of Manhattan, was arrested early Sunday and charged with 13 counts of reckless endangerment, just hours after the boat carrying 14 people overturned in New York Harbor, the New York Police Department said.

— Gloria Pazmino, CNN Money, 10 Aug. 2026

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Upon her return to Canada, Moore acted in plays and resumed her screen career in the 1971 Canadian film drama Rip-Off.

— Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
Prutian and the others knew that, in early 2024, prisoner swaps between Russia and Ukraine had resumed after a months-long pause.

— Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026