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🚫 Not chosen 🧵 To remove stitches 🧵 Stitches removed
unpicked

unpicked

4.8
A piece of cloth or clothing with stitches removed
  • adjective
  • /ʌnˈpɪkt/
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  • She noticed an unpicked seam along the sleeve that needed fixing.

Examples

  • The tailor carefully repaired the unpicked hem on my trousers.

  • The fabric was left unpicked.

  • After hours of work, the old embroidery was finally unpicked from the fabric.

  • Why is this fabric still unpicked?

  • The tailor carefully repaired the unpicked hem on my trousers.

  • She noticed an unpicked seam along the sleeve that needed fixing.

  • After hours of work, the old embroidery was finally unpicked from the fabric.

Synonyms

unhemmed
vsunpicked
7.2

Cloth with raw edges that can fray

describes seams or stitches that were removed or undone

How Sewn

sewn
1.6
unseamed
8.4
unpicked
4.8

Surface Forms

unpicked positive

Morphology

unpicked = unpick (semi-transparent) = un + pick + ed

The past participle is regular, but the meaning of 'unpick' is specialized to sewing and not obvious from 'pick'.

Etymology

Unpicked is formed from un- + pick; here un- means 'the opposite' or 'remove', and pick means 'pull out', as when you pick a thread. So unpicked describes fabric with stitches or threads pulled out, a seam left undone.