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: --
If I try to unpick my own motivation, I think mostly I was jealous.
He expertly unpicks the significant features of each painting.
3 to gradually destroy or remove the good effects of what someone has done or created: --
The consequence has been that it does not work and that, almost from the day when it was formally established, it has had to be unpicked.
If such a case exists, the distribution will have to be unpicked.
Let us therefore be very careful that the good work we have done will not be unpicked by what we are about to do.
The question is whether the problem can be unpicked.
When it is unpicked, not only that part of it but the remainder will be unpicked.
That work should not be unpicked in trying to go back to the closed door between acute and community services.
A settlement has been reached on that issue, and it is unlikely that it will be unpicked.
I say "companies representing shareholders" because the two cannot, as it were, be unpicked.
