extricate
/ˈɛk.stɹɪˌkeɪt/ verb C2- To free, disengage, loosen, or untangle. · I finally managed to extricate myself from the tight jacket.· The firefighters had to use the jaws of life to extricate Monica from the car wreck.
He/she/it extricates · Past extricated · Past participle extricated · -ing form extricating
Verb forms
- Base form
- extricate
- He/she/it
- extricates
- Past
- extricated
- Past participle
- extricated
- -ing form
- extricating
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And now I pass on to another thread which I have extricated out of the tangled skein, the mystery of the sobs in the night, of the tear-stained face of Mrs.
Dantès, although stunned and almost suffocated, had sufficient presence of mind to hold his breath, and as his right hand (prepared as he was for every chance) held his knife open, he rapidly ripped up the sack, extricated his arm, and then his body; but in spite of all his efforts to free himself from the shot, he felt it dragging him down still lower.
“We might start at five o’clock and be in time, but the delay may cause your friend to pass an uneasy night, and therefore we had better go with all speed to extricate him from the hands of the infidels.
“And from whose hands the count extricated me in so wonderful a manner?”
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