0 present 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:
To begin unpicking the significance of these new results, we need to return to some of the original claims.
Clearly, unpicking the causal links requires a more searching and focused enquiry if it is to move beyond generating new but unproven hypotheses.
A more explicit treatment of gender distinctions might have been helpful here, in unpicking the different responses to premature loss.
Rather than unpicking the socially-structured spaces of ' normal ' domestic life, the end of an illness, albeit in death, marked a time of legitimate re-ordering.
Unpicking the "seems" of free will.
Such deconstruction challenges the complacency of the subject, unpicking the connections between power and knowledge, and showing how social policy is itself implicated in the processes it claims to study.
The processes of unpicking the treaty and reconstituting another would take a considerable number of months.
They go to the heart of the clause, and could not be addressed without unpicking it.
