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Extricate

To free or release from a difficult or tangled situation; to disentangle and remove from constraint.

verb
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Imagine This

Picture a diver caught in a fishing net. With careful cuts and maneuvering, the diver extricates herself from the net and swims free.

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Sounds Like

EK-stri-kayt

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Looks Like

looks like extract; resembles intricate in spelling

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Remember This

Extricate comes from Latin extricare, meaning to disentangle; the word is commonly used in rescue and removal from danger or entanglement.

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Other Forms

extricatedverb
extricatingverb
extricationnoun
extricableadjective
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Connect With

disentangle, untangle, release, liberate, rescue

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Note

Commonly followed by 'from' (extricate from a jam, from a tangle). Do not confuse with 'extract,' which means to pull something out from the interior of something.

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