extricate
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin extricatus, past participle of extricō.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
extricate (third-person singular simple present extricates, present participle extricating, simple 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)
Related terms edit
Translations edit
to free, disengage, loosen or untangle
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See also edit
References edit
- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “extricate”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
Latin edit
Verb edit
extrīcāte