UNPACK

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (verb)

Verb forms

Present simple: I / you / we / they unpack ... he / she / it unpacks

Past simple: unpacked

Past participle: unpacked

-ing form: unpacking

Sense 1

Meaning:

Remove from its packing

Example:

unpack the presents

Synonyms:

take out; unpack

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "unpack" is one way to...):

remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "unpack"):

bring out; get out (take out of a container or enclosed space)

unbox (remove from a box)

break out (take from stowage in preparation for use)

uncrate (remove from the crate)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Antonym:

pack (arrange in a container)

Credits

Context examples:

Marianne's pianoforte was unpacked and properly disposed of; and Elinor's drawings were affixed to the walls of their sitting room.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

He promised me the sight of a capital gun he is just going to send off; said he would keep it unpacked to the last possible moment, that I might see it; and if I do not turn back now, I have no chance.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

He had done this thing before, somewhere in that other and dimly remembered world, and he was doing it again, now, running free in the open, the unpacked earth underfoot, the wide sky overhead.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

This he unpacked with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean little cold supper began to be laid out upon our humble lodging-house mahogany.