Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - unpick

(unpicks, unpicking, unpicked) 1. If you unpick a piece of sewing, you remove the stitches from it. You can always unpick the hems on the dungarees if you don’t like them. = undo VERB: V n 2. If someone unpicks a plan or policy, they disagree with it and examine it thoroughly in order to find any mistakes that they can use to defeat it. (BRIT) A statesman who ought to know better wants to unpick last year’s reform of Europe’s common agricultural policy. VERB: V n