Grow and Pick

Grow

Grow verb - To look after or assist the growth of by labor and care.
Usage example: a dedicated home gardener who grows tomatoes in her small garden every summer

Pick is an antonym for grow.

Nearby Words: growth, growing, grown, grower

Pick

Pick verb - To catch or collect (a crop or natural resource) for human use.

Grow is an antonym for pick in topics: choose, gather, locked.

Nearby Words: pickle, picky, picked, picket, pickup

Common collocations

people grow people pick people
time grow time pick time
size grow size pick size
flowers grow flowers pick flowers
Other words: teeth, times, weapons.

Both words in one sentence

  • Shows Damage He can use this to his advantage somewhat in that if his arm is removed (he'll grow it back quickly), he can pick it up as a weapon.
    Source: Shows Damage
  • Film / Super Troopers The others pick at Rabbit for being unable to grow one, and in the epilogue scene, the wispy mustache he's got on is actually fake, which he rips off when it's time to get serious.
  • Film / Super Troopers They actually pick on Foster to "grow a goddamned mustache" and Foster responds that he hasn't shaven in two weeks.
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