unpick

He doesn't look unpicked to me.
Il ne me parait pas trop miteux.
The Council has of course, as always, now very cleverly unpicked our package for tactical reasons and negotiated all the proposals for compromise individually with the various interested parties.
En fin tacticien, le Conseil a alors déficelé très intelligemment notre paquet et a négocié séparément chaque proposition d'amendement avec les différents participants.
Let us therefore be very careful that the good work we have done will not be unpicked by what we are about to do.
Nous devons donc prendre garde que le bon travail que nous avons fait ne soit pas réduit à néant par ce que nous sommes sur le point de faire.
The skirt was too short, so I unpicked the hem.
La jupe était trop courte, alors j'ai décousu l'ourlet.
The tailor unpicked the stitching and sewed the hem two centimeters higher.
Le tailleur a décousu la couture et a recousu l'ourlet deux centimètres plus haut.
I unpicked the patches I had sewn onto the jacket's elbows.
J'ai décousu les pièces que j'avais cousues sur les coudes de la veste.
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