Meaning & use
Extricate
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To free someone or something from a difficult, entangled, or dangerous situation.
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It took firefighters an hour to extricate the driver from the wreckage.
She struggled to extricate herself from the awkward conversation.
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From the Latin extricare, "to disentangle," built from ex- (out) and tricae (perplexities or hindrances).
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