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extricates

extricates is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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)

Questions about extricates

What is extricates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Extricates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of extricate.

Words near extricates in the dictionary

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

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