English-Dutch translations for pluck

plukken
We zijn allemaal leden van dezelfde speciës, die nog steeds in staat is om de beste bloemen uit de tuin van het leven te plukken. We are all members of a single species, which is still capable of plucking the best flowers from the garden of life.
pluimen

kaalplukken
moed
Inmiddels weten wij dat het tot eind september 2000 geduurd heeft voordat de Raad daarvoor genoeg moed had verzameld. As we know, it actually took until the end of September 2000 before the Council plucked up the necessary courage. In plaats van de gelederen te sluiten had u uw moed moeten samenrapen, u had in dit conflict eindelijk uw politieke verantwoording moeten dragen. Instead of closing ranks, you would have done better to pluck up courage and at last accept your political responsibility in this dispute. Ik ben benieuwd of de Raad volgend jaar, bij het aanpakken van de milieuvervuiling op zee, dezelfde moed aan de dag zal leggen als de Commissie en het Parlement . I am eager to see whether the Council will pluck up the same courage as the Commission and Parliament next year to take active measures to prevent environmental pollution at sea.
pluk
rukken
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To pull something sharply; to pull something out
To take or remove quickly from a particular place or situation
To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc
To remove feathers from a bird
To rob, fleece, steal forcibly
To play a string instrument pizzicato
To pull or twitch sharply
To be rejected after failing an examination for a degree
Of a glacier: to transport individual pieces of bedrock by means of gradual erosion through freezing and thawing. see "plucking" on Wikipedia--
An instance of plucking
The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals
Cheap wine

She plucked the phone from her bag and dialled
Whereas a piano strikes the string, a harpsichord plucks it
The horny highwayman plucked his victims to their underwear, or attractive ones all the way
Plucking a bow instrument may cause a string to break
to pluck at somebodys sleeve
Those tiny birds are hardly worth the tedious pluck
He didnt get far with the attempt, but you have to admire his pluck

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