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extricate

UK/ˈɛk.stɹɪ.keɪt/

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Australia/ˈek.stɹɪˌkæɪt/

extricate verb: to free, disengage, loosen, or untangle.

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.
    Synonyms:
    unthread
  2. (rare) To free from intricacies or perplexity.
    • 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)

extricate meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada

extricate in Tamil

இடரினின்றும் வெளிக்கொணர், சிக்கல் அகற்று, விடுவி

extricate in Bengali

জটিলতা, বিপদ থেকে মুক্ত করা

extricate in Malayalam

വിടുവിക്കുക, വെവ്വേറെയാക്കുക, സ്വതന്ത്രമാക്കുക, കുഴപ്പങ്ങളിൽനിന്ന് മോചിപ്പിക്കുക

extricate in Kannada

ಪಾರುಮಾಡು, ಬಿಡುಗಡೆ ಮಾಡು, ಬಿಡಿಸು, ಬಿಡಿಸಿಕೊ, ಪಾರಾಗು

Examples of extricate in a sentence

  • For the most terrible of car accidents, jaws of life have to be used to extricate the injured.
  • Even with the most creative attempts to regender themselves, people cannot always extricate themselves from stereotypes.
  • But he'd Uriah-Heeped himself into yet another corner from which she refused to extricate him.

All 14 example sentences with extricate

Synonyms of extricate

Forms of extricate

third-person singular presentextricates
present participleextricating
past participleextricated
pastextricated

Past tense of extricate: extricated

Origin of extricate

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

Words formed from extricate

Questions about extricate

What does extricate mean?
Extricate means to free, disengage, loosen, or untangle.
What is extricate in Tamil?
Extricate in Tamil is இடரினின்றும் வெளிக்கொணர், சிக்கல் அகற்று, விடுவி. See Extricate meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is extricate?
Extricate is a verb.
How do you pronounce extricate?
Extricate is pronounced /ˈɛk.stɹɪ.keɪt/ (UK).
What is the past tense of extricate?
The past tense of extricate is extricated.

Words near extricate in the dictionary

  1. extremum
  2. extremums
  3. extriangulated
  4. extricability
  5. extricable
  6. extricate
  7. extricated
  8. extricates
  9. extricatest
  10. extricateth
  11. extricating

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Adapted from Wiktionary: extricate (page history and authors); extricate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); extricate (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); extricate (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); extricate (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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