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/ʌnˈpæk/ · verb
(transitive) To remove from a package or container, particularly with respect to items that had previously been arranged closely and securely in a pack..
They didn't have time to unpack their bags before going out to dinner.
They didn't have time to unpack before going to dinner.
There may be another argument here, if we had time to unpack it, about modernism and the rise of the middle classes.
Yet few Americans — including the president — understand how global trade works, both how it can help our economy and how some can be left behind. Let’s try to unpack a few of the complexities.
From a gender reveal to a secret ceremony and rifts with other royal family members, there was a lot to unpack from the interview
The rounded vowels [y] and [œ/ə] in Russian seem to unpack as glide-vowel sequences in words borrowed from French and German, […]
Whereas the high vowels /ʏ, y/ unpack, the mid vowels /œ, ø/ are adapted as single segments in these languages (see examples in (36) for Vietnamese (Barker 1969) and (37) for Fon (Gbeto 2000)). […] French /y/ → Vietnamese /wi/ accu [a'ky] → ac-quy [ak kwi]
The objective of these corpora was to check whether vowels other than nasal vowels systematically unpack in L1s that do not allow them.
Use unpack when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Unpack means (transitive) To remove from a package or container, particularly with respect to items that had previously been arranged closely and securely in a pack..
Common synonyms include take out.
Possible antonyms include pack.
They didn't have time to unpack their bags before going out to dinner.
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