Pick up meaning
Pick up is a phrasal verb with 15 meanings. One of them is to raise a person or object from a surface with one's hands.
- Past simple
- picked up
- Past participle
- picked up
- -ing form
- picking up
What pick up means
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To raise a person or object from a surface with one's hands
She picked up the sleeping child and carried him upstairs.
14 more meanings of pick up are in the Retite app, each with an example and a translation into your language.
More meanings in the appSimilar phrasal verbs
With pick: pick out.
With up: wake up, grow up, line up, make up, set up, put up, go up, bring up, mess up, break up.
Common questions
What does pick up mean?
It has 15 meanings. One of them is to raise a person or object from a surface with one's hands. The other 14, each with an example and a translation into your language, are in the Retite app.
What is the past tense of pick up?
Picked up, which is also its past participle.
Meanings and examples are written by Retite. The meanings follow Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0). Levels are based on the CEFR-J Wordlist and set by Retite.
