pick sb/sth off
— phrasal verb with pick uk/pɪk/us/pɪk/verb
(SHOOT)
to shoot at one particular person, animal, or vehicle that you have chosen from a group:
The snipers picked the soldiers off one by one as they ran for cover.
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Murder & attempted murder
- assassinate
- assassination
- attempt
- blow sb away
- blow sb's brains out idiom
- bump
- dispatch
- lynch
- lynch law
- manslaughter
- martyr
- martyred
- necklace
- poison
- slain
- slay
- slaying
- slew 1
- snuff sb out
- throttle
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(TAKE THE BEST)
UK to take the best person or thing from a group:
It is relatively easy for newcomers to pick off the most lucrative business and ignore the rest.
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Taking and choosing
- accord
- adopt
- adopted
- adoption
- appoint
- bags I... idiom
- dip
- easy option
- either-or
- elect
- empanel
- go off with sth
- have/keep your options open idiom
- selection
- selective
- selector
- self-selected
- single sb/sth out
- skim sb/sth off
- slate
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