extricate

Borrowed from Latin extrīcātus, past participle of extrīcō.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛks.tɹɪ.keɪt/

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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.

• intricate

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

extrīcāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of extrīcō