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extricated

extricated is the simple past and past participle of extricate.

Meaning of extricate

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.
    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)

Words formed from extricated

Questions about extricated

What is extricated the simple past and past participle of?
Extricated is the simple past and past participle of extricate.

Words near extricated in the dictionary

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

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