to keep treating someone badly or unfairly, especially by criticizing them
used for telling someone to stop criticizing or attacking someone who is smaller or weaker than them
He said: 'I was picked on for many years and I learned to tone down my personality.
I was only seven when some girls in my year started picking on me.
Other kids picked on me until a couple of years ago.
The'very shy' girl was taken out of school after years of being picked on.
Why do you always pick on me?
picks on
picking on
picked on
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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