extricate
/'ekstrikəbl/
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Definition
- Verb:
- To free or release someone or something from a constraint, entanglement, or difficult situation.
- To disentangle or remove something from a place or condition where it is stuck or trapped.
Examples
- Verb:
- The firefighters worked for hours to extricate the driver from the wreckage.
- She managed to extricate the key from the lock after several tries.
- He needed a lawyer to help extricate himself from the complicated legal contract.
Advanced Usage
- "to extricate oneself from": To free oneself from a difficult, embarrassing, or restrictive situation.
- The politician tried to extricate himself from the scandal with a public apology.
- "to extricate something from": To carefully remove an object from a place where it is lodged or entangled.
- The surgeon skillfully extricated the bullet from the patient's shoulder.
Variants and Related Words
- Extricable (adj): Capable of being extricated or freed.
- The situation was messy but ultimately extricable.
- Extrication (n): The act or process of extricating.
- The extrication of the trapped miners was a complex operation.
Synonyms
- Disentangle: To free from tangles or complications.
- Extract: To remove or take out, especially with effort.
- Disengage: To detach or free from a connection.
- Free: To release from confinement or restraint.
Antonyms
- Entangle: To cause to become twisted together or caught in a snarl.
- Ensnare: To capture in, or as if in, a trap.
- Involve: To include as a necessary part or result; to entangle.
Related Phrases
- "to extricate from a predicament": To free someone from a difficult or unpleasant situation.
- Her quick thinking extricated the team from a serious predicament.
- "a delicate extrication": A careful and difficult process of freeing something.
- The negotiation required a delicate extrication from the previous agreement's terms.
Verb
- release from entanglement of difficulty
- I cannot extricate myself from this task