extricate
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈɛks.tɹɪ.keɪt/
extricate (extricates, present participle extricating; past and past participle extricated)
- (transitive) To free, disengage, loosen, or untangle.
- I finally managed to extricate myself from the tight jacket.
- The firefighters had to use the jaws of life to extricate Monica from the car wreck.
- (rare) To free from intricacies or perplexity
- 1662: Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue Two)
- Your argumentation ... is invelloped with certain intricacies, that are not easie to be extricated.
- 1662: Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue Two)
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