UNPICK


Meaning of UNPICK in English

verb

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

By contrast, historians want to unpick the public face that is presented.

Fru Gertlinger knew that Elisabeth did not want to unpick the past with her and she never made mention of it.

However, when the garment was completed I didn't like it and took the decision to unpick the whole thing.

I remember a short, rhythmically complex passage patiently unpicked and reconstituted over half an hour.

She could quite see Aunt Tossie unpicking the oldest and least favoured work and starting the canvas over again.

She spent hours unpicking her pre-war frocks in order to remake them for her daughter.

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