[ verb ]
■ gain or regain energy
→
gain vigor
,
percolate
,
perk
,
perk up
[ verb ]
■ improve significantly
■ go from bad to good
→
turn around
[ verb ]
■ lift out or reflect from a background
[ verb ]
■ get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally
→
discover
,
find out
,
get a line
,
get wind
,
get word
,
hear
,
learn
,
see
[ verb ]
■ eat by pecking at, like a bird
→
peck
[ verb ]
■ take up by hand
[ verb ]
■ take into custody
→
apprehend
,
arrest
,
collar
,
cop
,
nab
,
nail
[ verb ]
■ fill with high spirits
■ fill with optimism
→
elate
,
intoxicate
,
lift up
,
uplift
[ verb ]
■ give a passenger or a hitchhiker a lift
[ verb ]
■ take and lift upward
→
gather up
,
lift up
[ verb ]
■ register (perceptual input)
e.g.)
・pick up a signal
→
receive
[ verb ]
■ perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily
→
catch
[ verb ]
■ buy casually or spontaneously
[ verb ]
■ gather or collect
e.g.)
・They pick up our trash twice a week
→
call for
,
collect
,
gather up
[ verb ]
■ get in addition, as an increase
[ verb ]
■ meet someone for sexual purposes
e.g.)
・he always tries to pick up girls in bars
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