All pick at synonyms

verb pick at

• mess with — a dirty, untidy, or disordered condition: The room was in a mess.
• fustigate — to cudgel; beat; punish severely.
• bicker — When people bicker, they argue or quarrel about unimportant things.
• gunning — a weapon consisting of a metal tube, with mechanical attachments, from which projectiles are shot by the force of an explosive; a piece of ordnance.
• fiddle — a musical instrument of the viol family.
• carp — A carp is a kind of fish that lives in lakes and rivers.
• get to — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
• look over — the act of looking: a look of inquiry.
• got to — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
• fussed — an excessive display of anxious attention or activity; needless or useless bustle: They made a fuss over the new baby.
• blistered — a thin vesicle on the skin, containing watery matter or serum, as from a burn or other injury.
• animadvert — to comment with strong criticism (upon); make censorious remarks (about)
• denunciate — to condemn; denounce
• examine — Inspect (someone or something) in detail to determine their nature or condition; investigate thoroughly.
• get in one's hair — to annoy one
• criticise — criticize
• fluffed — Simple past tense and past participle of fluff.
• altercate — to argue, esp heatedly; dispute
• find fault — a defect or imperfection; flaw; failing: a fault in the brakes; a fault in one's character.
• nosh — to snack or eat between meals.
• nibble — to bite off small bits.
• egged — the roundish reproductive body produced by the female of certain animals, as birds and most reptiles, consisting of an ovum and its envelope of albumen, jelly, membranes, egg case, or shell, according to species.
• denunciated — Simple past tense and past participle of denunciate.
• give a hard time — a period of difficulties or hardship.
• fussing — an excessive display of anxious attention or activity; needless or useless bustle: They made a fuss over the new baby.
• fluffing — light, downy particles, as of cotton.
• look see — a visual inspection or survey; look; examination: have a look-see.
• chew over — If you chew something over, you keep thinking about it.
• gunned — a weapon consisting of a metal tube, with mechanical attachments, from which projectiles are shot by the force of an explosive; a piece of ordnance.
• egging — the roundish reproductive body produced by the female of certain animals, as birds and most reptiles, consisting of an ovum and its envelope of albumen, jelly, membranes, egg case, or shell, according to species.
• hypercriticize — To criticize with unjust severity.
• do a number on — a numeral or group of numerals.
• criticize — If you criticize someone or something, you express your disapproval of them by saying what you think is wrong with them.
• denunciating — present participle of denunciate.
• nag — to annoy by persistent faultfinding, complaints, or demands.
• get on one's nerves — one or more bundles of fibers forming part of a system that conveys impulses of sensation, motion, etc., between the brain or spinal cord and other parts of the body.