extricate

🇺🇸 /ˈekstrɪkeɪt/ 🇬🇧 /ˈekstrɪkeɪt/
Frequency
Difficulty
Tags TOP20000
verb
R

To remove or free someone from a difficult or complicated situation.

He had managed to extricate himself from most of his official duties.

R

To free someone or something from a place where they are stuck and cannot move.

They managed to extricate the pilot from the tangled control panel.

translation

v. To remove or free someone from a difficult or complicated situation.; To free someone or something from a place where they are stuck and cannot move.

Word Forms

3rd Present extricates
Past extricated
Perfect extricated
Progressive extricating