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Scoop up   /skup əp/   Listen
Scoop up

verb
1.
Take out or up with or as if with a scoop.  Synonyms: lift out, scoop, scoop out, take up.






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"Scoop up" Quotes from Famous Books



... long ago gone out of the ponds around Carson I reckon we won't get any chance to try that queer sort of pickerel fishing," Steve observed; "but I brought my minnow seine along, so we ought to scoop up plenty of live bait, and they take with pickerel every time. You can trust Uncle Steve for bringing in an occasional ...
— Chums of the Camp Fire • Lawrence J. Leslie

... picture, book, or vestal boredom, such awful, solemn, impenetrable blue, as in that same sea. It has such an absorbing, silent, deep, profound effect, that I can't help thinking it suggested the idea of Styx. It looks as if a draught of it, only so much as you could scoop up on the beach in the hollow of your hand, would wash out everything else, and make a great blue blank of your intellect. . . . When the sun sets clearly, then, by Heaven, it is majestic. From any one ...
— The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete • John Forster



Words linked to "Scoop up" :   lift out, scoop out, dip, remove, withdraw, take away, scoop, take up, take



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