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  1. gain or regain energy
  2. improve significantly; go from bad to good
  3. lift out or reflect from a background
  4. get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally
  5. eat by pecking at, like a bird
  6. take up by hand
  7. take into custody
  8. fill with high spirits; fill with optimism
  9. give a passenger or a hitchhiker a lift
  10. take and lift upward
  11. register (perceptual input)
  12. perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily
  13. buy casually or spontaneously
  14. gather or collect
  15. get in addition, as an increase
  16. meet someone for sexual purposes

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