extricate
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin extricatus, past participle of extricō.
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
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 termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
to free, disengage, loosen or untangle
ReferencesEdit
- “extricate”, in John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors, The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, →ISBN.
LatinEdit
VerbEdit
extrīcāte