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extricating

extricating is the present participle and gerund 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 extricating

What is extricating the present participle and gerund of?
Extricating is the present participle and gerund of extricate.

Words near extricating in the dictionary

  1. extricate
  2. extricated
  3. extricates
  4. extricatest
  5. extricateth
  6. extricating
  7. extrication
  8. extrications
  9. extrinsic
  10. extrinsic motivation
  11. extrinsic motivations

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