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Unpick

verb
1.
Become or cause to become undone by separating the fibers or threads of.  Synonyms: unknot, unravel, unscramble, untangle.
2.
Undo (the stitches) of (a piece of sewing).





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"Unpick" Quotes from Famous Books



... phrase to 'other translators.' The Squire resumed. '"Antinous, one of the suitors, is speaking: 'We could see her working on her great web all day long, but at night she would unpick the stitches again by torchlight. She fooled us in this way for three years, and we never found her out, but as time wore on, and she was now in her fourth year, one of her maids, who knew what she ...
— Elizabeth's Campaign • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... interested in your Borgia mattress, Sir Walter. Science, I doubt not, will carefully unpick it and make a series of very remarkable experiments; yet I make bold to believe that science may be baffled by the cunning and forgotten knowledge of men long dust. We shall see ...
— The Grey Room • Eden Phillpotts


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