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Synonyms for unpick

become or cause to become undone by separating the fibers or threads of

undo (the stitches) of (a piece of sewing)

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? Before you start, read through the instructions on your pattern well so that you don't pre-empt steps and have to waste time unpicking later.
He said, 'I would be very wary of unpicking a consensus that has been arrived at.
Fiction DRIVING JARVIS HAM BY JIM BOB THE FRIDAY PROJECT, pounds 12.99 Better known as half of witty, underrated indie veterans Carter USM, this unpicking of childhood friendships is Jim Bob's second novel.
Their topics include the nature and use of evidence in midwifery care, vaginal birth after Caesarean, reflections on running an evidence course, supervision of midwifery and evidence based practice, guidelines and the consultant midwife, unpicking the rhetoric of midwifery practice, and the potential of service user groups to support evidence based midwifery.
On the other hand unpicking all that timber a year hence ...
TUC general secretary Brendan Barber said it would be "ludicrous" for the government to use a report on the future of pension provision in the UK as a pretext for unpicking the deal.
ENGLANDhave historically been smothered in Ashes contests but when the first Test starts at Lord's tomorrow the hosts have their best chance of unpicking the seams of Australia's comfort blanket for 15 years, writes Ed Hawkins.
It's about unpicking the very threads of communities.
Once a matter of nostalgic cliche, music hall has prompted a proliferation of approaches and contextualisations that demonstrate both the rich historical potential of the halls, and the difficulties of synthesis - not least between approaches primarily concerned with the business of music hall as a cultural industry, and those interested in unpicking the meanings made possible by music hall performance.
Brink in the plenary sessions, and by Lisa Jardine, whose keynote address, "Unpicking the Tapestry: The Scholar of Women's History as Penelope Among the Suitors," argued the need for a completely new historical narrative of early modern England and for a "new history in which women's and men's interventions in past time will weigh equally" (140).
Now I want to memorize figures: current mortality patterns among children in the Far East, now from the edges I start unpicking - because before the festivities our abated rows were tied up with string in boxes - Ilsebill's wishes .
Baroness Jay, chair of the House of Lords' constitution committee, said: "You can't just start unpicking constitutional arrangements.
He likes to play with a piece of string and often is found unpicking the stitching off a throw.Name: ?Sunny.