extract
/ɪkˈstɹækt/ verb B2- To draw out; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc. · to extract a tooth from its socket, a stump from the earth, or a splinter from the finger
- To withdraw by squeezing, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process. Compare abstract (transitive verb). · to extract an essential oil from a plant
- To pick out; to cite or reproduce a snippet of · extract a passage from a text.· extract a line from a song.
- To select parts of a whole · We need to try to extract the positives from the defeat.
- To determine (a root of a number). · Please extract the cube root of 27.
He/she/it extracts · Past extracted · Past participle extracted · -ing form extracting
Verb forms
- Base form
- extract
- He/she/it
- extracts
- Past
- extracted
- Past participle
- extracted
- -ing form
- extracting
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When the Crane had extracted the bone and demanded the promised payment, the Wolf, grinning and grinding his teeth, exclaimed: “Why, you have surely already had a sufficient recompense, in having been permitted to draw out your head in safety from the mouth and jaws of a wolf.”
He expressed his willingness to accept the Lion as the suitor of his daughter on one condition: that he should allow him to extract his teeth, and cut off his claws, as his daughter was fearfully afraid of both.
She said acorns would produce mistletoe, from which an irremediable poison, the bird-lime, would be extracted and by which they would be captured.
From within he extracted a dumb-bell, which he tossed down to its fellow in the corner.
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