Extricate
['ekstrɪkeɪt] or ['ɛkstrɪket]
Definition
(verb.) release from entanglement of difficulty; 'I cannot extricate myself from this task'.
Typed by Damian--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To free, as from difficulties or perplexities; to disentangle; to disembarrass; as, to extricate a person from debt, peril, etc.
(v. t.) To cause to be emitted or evolved; as, to extricate heat or moisture.
Typist: Penelope
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Disengage, disentangle, clear, disembarrass, relieve, liberate, deliver, free, set free.
Typed by Catherine
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See INVOLVE]
Typist: Sadie
Definition
v.t. to free from hinderances or perplexities: to disentangle: to set free.—adj. Ex′tricable.—n. Extricā′tion disentanglement: act of setting free.
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Examples
- Then you must get him out of England before you stir a finger to extricate yourself. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- When she began to extricate herself it was by turning round and round, and so unwinding the prickly switch. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- But if you'll come along I'll extricate you; and you must really lunch with me, you know. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- How long I might have remained lost in the mist of my own metaphysics, if I had been left to extricate myself, it is impossible for me to say. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- That done, extricate yourself, in Heaven's name, and we'll see it out together, dear old boy. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- His imagination has rarely extricated itself from under the administrative machine to gain any sense of what a human, temporary contraption the whole affair is. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- You're quite sure, she added solicitously, as the latter extricated herself, that you wouldn't like me to telephone for Lawrence Selden? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- He was now in a perilous position, one from which but few generals could have extricated themselves. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The Captain drew himself back, and extricated himself from the Jew's grasp, not without some marks of contempt. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The pilgrim extricated himself, as if there were contamination in the touch. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Mr Venus took the lead, towing Mr Wegg, in order that his refractory leg might be promptly extricated from any pitfalls it should dig for itself. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Ivanhoe, extricating himself from his fallen horse, was soon on foot, hastening to mend his fortune with his sword; but his antagonist arose not. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- I do, extricating myself from restraint rapidly and completely. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Whatever happens, I have full faith in Justinian's powers of extricating himself from any dilemma; besides, Maurice also is ingenious in ideas. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- My first impulse was that we should all return to Versailles, there to assist in extricating our chief from his perils. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I turned from the awful ruin of the Golden City, and, after great exertion, succeeded in extricating myself from its enclosure. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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