Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To release from an entanglement or difficulty; disengage.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To disentangle; disengage; free: as, to
extricate one from a perilous or embarrassing situation; to extricate one's self from debt. - To set loose or free; evolve; excrete.
- Synonyms Disentangle, etc. (see
disengage ); relieve, deliver, set free. - In entomology, extruded: applied to the ovipositor when the valves and vagina are entirely without the body, whether in use or not, as in many Ichneumonidæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To free, as from difficulties or perplexities; to disentangle; to disembarrass
- transitive verb To cause to be emitted or evolved.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
free ,disengage ,loosen , oruntangle . - verb rare To free from
intricacies orperplexity
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb release from entanglement of difficulty
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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COOPER: But using the word extricate, does that mean that you think U.S. troops should be out?
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However, we had the pleasure of seeing everything safe at camp in the evening, except three or four of our poorest horses, which being unable to extricate from the snow, we were obliged to abandon to their fate.
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The original story was the wife used the golf club to smash the window to "extricate" Woods from the car?
Tiger Woods and the Ambien bombshell they aren't chasing. (1 of 3 in a series) 2009
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Hillary Clinton said Sunday that 'President Bush has made a mess of Iraq and it is his responsibility to' extricate 'the United States from the situation before he leaves office,' reports the AP.
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Hillary Clinton Urges President Not to Pass the Buck on Iraq 2007
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Princeiso said a royal peace and development programme was planned to reach out to traditional chiefs, "extricate" them from politics, and allow people displaced by violence to return to their communities.
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It is difficult to "extricate" the meaning of lines 19-25, but, perhaps, they are intended to convey a hope of immortality.
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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William John Davis today told the District Court he had turned his life around, kicked his drug habit and begun to "extricate" himself from the outlaw club.
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The original story was the wife used the golf club to smash the window to "extricate" Woods from the car?
OpEdNews - OpEdNews.Com Progressive, Tough Liberal News and Opinion 2009
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Neither revenue increases nor spending cuts alone could extricate us from this deficit crisis.
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And if you do extricate yourself for a few moments from all devices luminous, does your shoulder devil soon whisper you back to a screen?
bilby commented on the word extricate
"My mom has worked in the same factory for more than 30 years. Along with about a hundred others, some immigrants from Southeast Asia, she makes small motors that can be used in dialysis machines, rotating advertising signs, or those amusement park games where you maneuver a metal claw hoping to extricate a small fuzzy animal."
- Robert Eshelman, 'Meeting Myself in Bucks County', 28 Oct 2008.
October 29, 2008