unpacks

Verb

unpack (third-person singular simple present unpacks, present participle unpacking, simple past and past participle unpacked)

1. (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.
2. (intransitive) To empty containers that had been packed.
   • They didn't have time to unpack before going to dinner.
3. (figuratively, transitive) To analyze a concept or a text; to explain.
   • There may be another argument here, if we had time to unpack it, about modernism and the rise of the middle classes.2013 September 20, Anne Enright, “A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing by Eimear McBride – review”, in The Guardian
4. (intransitive) To undergo separation of its features into distinct segments.
   • The rounded vowels [y] and [œ/ə] in Russian seem to unpack as glide-vowel sequences in words borrowed from French and German, […]2000, Language, volume 76, numbers 1-2, page 337
5. (transitive) To decompress (data).
   • Packages […] are often archived and compressed using the zip utility; you can unpack these with the unzip command[…]2005, Matthias Kalle Dalheimer, Matt Welsh, Running Linux