unpickverb [ T ]
uk/ʌnˈpɪk/us/ʌnˈpɪk/unpick verb [ T ] (SEWING)
to cut or remove the stitches from a line of sewing
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Knitting & sewing
- appliqué
- backing
- baste
- bind
- bobbin
- bodkin
- cable stitch
- handknitted
- hem
- knit
- knitter
- knitting
- needle
- seamstress
- sew sth up
- sewing
- sewing machine
- shorten
- spinner
- tack
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Unfastening and opening
unpick verb [ T ] (IDEAS)
If you unpick a difficult subject, you separate and examine its different parts carefully:
He expertly unpicks the significant features of each painting.
If I try to unpick my own motivation, I think mostly I was jealous.
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Analysing and evaluating
- analyse
- analyser
- analyst
- analytical
- analyze
- critical
- go through sth
- have the measure of sb/sth idiom
- inspect
- inspection
- interpretive
- measure
- proof
- sell sb/yourself/sth short idiom
- set great, little, etc. store by sth idiom
- sift
- sit
- sit in judgment on/over sb idiom
- size sth/sb up
- survey
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unpick verb [ T ] (DESTROY)
to gradually destroy or remove the good effects of what someone has done or created:
The former leader now has to watch his successor unpicking what he strived so hard to achieve.
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Destroying and demolishing
- annihilate
- apocalypse
- be sacrificed on the altar of sth idiom
- blast
- blast/blow sb/sth to kingdom come idiom
- fall in
- kill sth off
- kill the goose that lays the golden egg idiom
- knock
- knock sth down
- sacrifice
- sink
- smash
- stave
- stave sth in
- take sb/sth out
- tear 1
- tear sth apart
- tear sth down
- wipe
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