pick up

Definition

To lift; to grasp and raise.

Example Sentences

• "When you pick up the bag, make sure to support the bottom."
• "Evidently some, or all, of the boars immolated themselves, for the train crew are reported to have picked up three dead boars and continued to Sézanne, the next stop, where they gave them to the local hospital cooks."
• "She came in now, but to the closet; from it she took a simple skirt and blouse. Picking up her underclothing she departed, obviously to dress somewhere else."