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verb (used with object), -cat·ed, -cat·ing.
1.
to free or release from entanglement; disengage: to extricate someone from a dangerous situation.
2.
to liberate (gas) from combination, as in a chemical process.
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Extricate
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Example Sentences
- It has taken months to extricate it, but finally I have it back.
- Unable to extricate himself, after several days he dies of thirst within plain sight of freedom.
- That strategy once helped me to extricate myself from an ugly work environment.
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Word Origin & History
extricate
1610s, from L. extricatus, pp. of extricare "disentangle," from ex- "out of" + tricæ (pl.) "perplexities, hindrances," of unknown origin. Related: Extricable; extricated; extricating; extrication.
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