0 past simple and past participle of unpick
1 to cut or remove the stitches from a line of sewing
2 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.
3 to gradually destroy or remove the good effects of what someone has done or created:
He will understand that, if it is unpicked in one degree, the whole package will begin to fall apart.
No reports have been received of any crops of these fruits remaining unpicked.
Now, even part of that simplification is being unpicked.
A varying proportion of the area is left unpicked each year.
There are two reasons why that idea needs to be unpicked especially carefully.
It is a very haphazard, unpicked set of cases with which the clinics have to deal.
The danger is that the splendid settlement will be unpicked.
I say "companies representing shareholders" because the two cannot, as it were, be unpicked.
