Meaning

2 senses

  1. (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.

    befreien

    освобожда́тьosvoboždátʹ

  2. (rare)To free from intricacies or perplexity.

More definitions
  • release from entanglement of difficulty

Examples

2 sentences

  1. Elias wanted to successfully extricate himself out of the system.

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  2. The man extricated Ellie from a dangerous situation.

    ruМужчина вытащил Элли из опасного положения.

    deDer Mann befreite Ellie aus einer gefährlichen Situation.

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Translations

5 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
to free, disengage, loosen or untangle:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to free, disengage, loosen or untangle:

Origin

Borrowed from Latin extrīcātus, past participle of extrīcō. Compare intricate.

Borrowed from Latin extrīcātus, past participle of extrīcō. Compare intricate.

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Forms

extricates, extricating, extricated, extricated
Base formextricate · to extricate
3rd person singularextricates
Present participleextricating
Past simpleextricated
Past participleextricated

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyextricate
he, she, itextricates

Past simpleLesson

all personsextricated

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave extricated
he, she, ithas extricated

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill extricate

Synonyms

4 synonyms
unthread
Close in meaning

Word family

6 related words
Relatedextricableextricationinextricableintricateintrigue
Derivedunextricated

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
extremismextremistextremityextrinsicextrovert
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