extricate
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[edit] Etymology
From Latin extricatus, past participle of extricō.
[edit] Pronunciation
[edit] Verb
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 firemen 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)
[edit] Translations
to free, disengage, loosen or untangle
[edit] References
- Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition, 1989
[edit] Latin
[edit] Verb
extrīcāte
- second-person plural present active imperative of extrīcō