unpack

verb5

1. •
   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. •
   To empty containers that had been packed.

   • They didn't have time to unpack before going to dinner.
3. •
   To decompress (data).

   • Packages […] are often archived and compressed using the zip utility; you can unpack these with the unzip command[…] — 2005
4. •
   (figurative) 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
5. •
   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