pick off
phrasal verbpick somebody off
- (informal) to aim carefully at a person, an animal or an aircraft, especially one of a group, and then shoot them
- Snipers were picking off innocent civilians.
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pick something off
- to remove something from something such as a tree, a plant, etc.
- Pick off all the dead leaves.