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Webster 1913 Edition
Extricate
Ex′tri-cate
(ĕks′trĭ-kāt)
, Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Extricated
(ĕks′trĭ-kāˊtĕd)
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Extricating
(ĕks′trĭ-kāˊtĭng)
.] [L.
extricatus
, p. p. of extricare
to extricate; ex
out + tricae
trifles, impediments, perplexities. Cf. Intricate
.] 1.
To free, as from difficulties or perplexities; to disentangle; to disembarrass;
as, to
extricate
a person from debt, peril, etc.We had now
extricated
ourselves from the various labyrinths and defiles. Eustace.
Syn. – To disentangle; disembarrass; disengage; relieve; evolve; set free; liberate.
Webster 1828 Edition
Extricate
EX'TRICATE
,Verb.
T.
1. Properly, to disentangle; hence, to free from difficulties or perplexities; to disembarrass; as, to extricate one from complicated business, from troublesome alliances or other connections; to extricate one's self from debt.
2.
To set out; to cause to be emitted or evolved.Definition 2024
extricate
extricate
English
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)
Translations
to free, disengage, loosen or untangle
References
- J[ohn] A. Simpson and E[dward] S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ISBN 978-0-19-861186-8.