extricate

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin extrīcātus, past participle of extrīcō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛks.tɹɪ.keɪt/

• Audio (US):

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Verb

extricate (third-person singular simple present extricates, present participle extricating, simple past and past participle extricated)

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.

2. (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.

Derived terms

• unextricated

Related terms

• extricable
• extrication
• inextricable
• intricate
• intrigue

Translations

to free, disengage, loosen or untangle

Bulgarian: измъквам (bg) (izmǎkvam), освобождавам (bg) (osvoboždavam) Catalan: desempallegar (ca), deslliurar (ca) Czech: vymanit Dutch: bevrijden (nl), ontwarren (nl), verlossen (nl) French: extirper (fr) German: befreien (de) Hungarian: kiszabadít (hu), kibogoz (hu), kihúz (hu), kivág (hu) Icelandic: losa (is), leysa Irish: fuascail Korean: 탈출(脫出)시키다 (talchulsikida) Latin: extrīcō, expediō (la) Polish: wyswobadzać impf, wyswabadzać impf, wyswobodzić pf Russian: освобожда́ть (ru) (osvoboždátʹ) Scottish Gaelic: fuasgail, saor Spanish: librar (es), sacar (es)

See also

• intricate

References

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “extricate”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

Latin

Verb

extrīcāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of extrīcō