unpick
IPA: ʌnpɪk
verb
- (sewing) To undo sewing stitches.
- (knitting) To undo knitting in order to reuse the wool.
- To unravel or untangle the threads of a rope etc.
- (figurative) To unfold; to solve.
- (figuratively) To disassemble, to undo.
- (figuratively) To take apart, to criticize harshly.
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Examples of "unpick" in Sentences
- Changes accrete and become harder to unpick.
- And the penelopes unpick their work at night.
- Simpler just to move along than try to unpick it.
- Let's not unpick all of that work for no good reason.
- Or, to put it another way, let's unpick it just a little.
- I'm temporarily moving it back whilst I unpick this mess.
- It will take a lot of effort to unpick it and make it NPOV.
- The unpicked castaway would be ineligible to win the reward.
- I will try and unpick the history to see what happened here.
- The unpicked olive groves thunder like the waves along the hillocks.
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