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Extricate

//ˈɛks.tɹɪ.keɪt// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To free, disengage, loosen, or untangle. transitive

    "I finally managed to extricate myself from the tight jacket."

  2. 2
    release from entanglement of difficulty wordnet
  3. 3
    To free from intricacies or perplexity. rare

    "Your argumentation ... is invelloped with certain intricacies, that are not easie to be extricated."

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin extrīcātus, past participle of extrīcō. Compare intricate.

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