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Extricate   /ˈɛkstrəkˌeɪt/   Listen
verb
Extricate  v. t.  (past & past part. extricated; pres. part. extricating)  
1.
To free, as from difficulties or perplexities; to disentangle; to disembarrass; as, to extricate a person from debt, peril, etc. "We had now extricated ourselves from the various labyrinths and defiles."
2.
To cause to be emitted or evolved; as, to extricate heat or moisture.
Synonyms: To disentangle; disembarrass; disengage; relieve; evolve; set free; liberate.





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"Extricate" Quotes from Famous Books



... consideration, too simply a consideration of self-attention. We pity poverty, loss of friends, etc.,—more complex things, in which the sufferer's feelings are associated with others. This is a rough thought suggested by the presence of gout; I want head to extricate it and plane it. What is all this to your letter? I felt it to be a good one, but my turn, when I write at all, is perversely to travel out of the record, so that my letters are anything but answers. So you still want a motto? You must not take my ironical one, because your book, I take it, ...
— The Best Letters of Charles Lamb • Charles Lamb
... dreams for Roderick Drew. While Wabi and the old Indian, veterans in wilderness hardship, slept in peace and tranquillity, the city boy found himself in the most unusual and thrilling situations from which he would extricate himself with a grunt or sharp cry, several times sitting bolt upright in his bed of balsam until he realized where he was, and that his adventures were only ...
— The Wolf Hunters - A Tale of Adventure in the Wilderness • James Oliver Curwood
... promote the interests of the former, than ever a good man did to serve a good man or a good cause? For have we not been prodigal of life and fortune? have we not defied the civil magistrate upon occasion? and have we not attempted rescues, and dared all things, only to extricate a ...
— Clarissa, Volume 6 (of 9) - The History Of A Young Lady • Samuel Richardson
... but were awakened by the noise of a serpent of surprising length and thickness, whose scales made a rustling noise as he wound himself along. It swallowed up one of my comrades, notwithstanding his loud cries and the efforts he made to extricate himself from it. Dashing him several times against the ground, it crushed him, and we could hear it gnaw and tear the poor fellow's bones, though we had fled to a considerable distance. The following day, to our ...
— The Arabian Nights Entertainments • Anonymous
... he makes an effort to extricate the arm, heaving his shoulder upward. In vain.—It is held as in a vice, or the clasp of a giant. There is no alternative—he must submit to his fate. And such a fate! Once more he will see the sole enemy of ...
— The Death Shot - A Story Retold • Mayne Reid


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