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- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pick, apart.
- (idiomatic, transitive) To review or analyse in great detail
- (idiomatic, transitive, sports) To overcome by skilled execution.
- The quarterback picked apart the secondary defense in the first half.
- 2013, Phil McNulty, "Man City 4-1 Man Utd", BBC Sport, 22 September 2013:
- Moyes, who never won a derby at Liverpool in 11 years as Everton manager, did not find the Etihad any more forgiving as City picked United apart in midfield, where Toure looked in a different class to United's £27.5m new boy Marouane Fellaini, and in defence as Aguero tormented Nemanja Vidic and Rio Ferdinand.