to extricate
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7.6
- verb
- /ˈɛkstrɪˌkeɪt/
:
liberar (a alguien) de
- She had to extricate herself from the complicated web of lies.
- attempt to extricate
- trying to extricate
- difficult to extricate
I mean, it was to some degree, but it could be extricated from that and abstracted.
- I mean, it was to some degree, but it could be extricated from that and abstracted.
- Overrated just means, you know what, there's some room for us to extricate ourselves from this thing.
- Something utterly real from which he could not extricate himself and for which there was no comfort.
- For example, text and image have largely if not entirely, been extricated from one another.
- And it's not, it's hard when someone's in your face and your brain is reacting for you to extricate yourself from that situation.
- That's how you extricate yourself from the way of the world in a concrete fashion, not a purely ideal fashion.
- Because you realise that for you, extricating yourself from something like that means carefully untangling it in a kind way.
- But it does require me doing the work to extricate myself from this idea of pawning off my reality and sense of self just to be in a relationship.
- Once you're part of a gang, it's very difficult to extricate yourself and lead a different sort of life once you've been to prison and have a criminal record.
- So all of it is about the slowly extricating and the not getting stuck.
- The constants in their life, the things that it would be more difficult to extricate you from if it was to end tomorrow.
Examples
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Unfortunately, that is the world that we live in and that's going to be a really hard thing to extricate ourselves from.
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For a moment I thought I heard you say you wish to extricate yourself from the agreement we made.
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How do we extricate ourselves from that war?
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So I cannot extricate her from society.
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And just as I'm trying to extricate myself... I should probably get home.
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Colonial officials introduced Native Authority courts, which allowed women to extricate themselves from arranged marriages.
Academic text (1992) -
I'm afraid to say that over the next decade or longer, it is going to be very hard for the government to really extricate itself from this, from Wall Street.
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Once you're part of a gang, it's very difficult to extricate yourself and lead a different sort of life once you've been to prison and have a criminal record.
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Professional mediators and psychologists also spend their lives trying to extricate people from complicated predicaments.
Academic text (2011) -
You know, I've just spent the last three years of my life... trying to extricate myself from a relationship that was full of deception... and I'm doing just fine.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
Take something out of a container like a box or cupboard
∞
1.5
To move something or someone away from a place
∞
1.8
To let someone or something go free from being held
∞
1.4
To stop holding something or someone so they are free
523
2.7
To take something out of a place, often with effort
344
1.1
Allow someone or something to leave a place
337
1.0
To release someone or something that is held
165
3.0
To escape from people who are holding you, often by force
82
5.3
To stop being part of or connected to something
34
2.0
Save people or places from danger
15
6.1
To force something or someone out of a place where they are stuck
12
4.9
To free someone from a difficult or confusing situation
11
4.1
To escape limits or control and become independent
8
3.9
To force yourself free from a place or person
6
4.1
Remove chains and other things that hold someone so they are free
5
6.5
Free someone or something from limits and control
3
5.8
To free a person or thing from a difficult situation
1
3.9
To come away from something it was stuck to
1
6.2
To free someone or something from limits so they can act more freely
1
7.0
To make something less tight or set something free
1
9.9
To free a person or thing from an unwanted burden like debts
1
7.4
To free something that is stuck by removing what blocks it so it can move again
1
6.7
To free something by letting go of ties or limits
To free someone or something from a problem that makes things hard
To free a person or thing from a difficult situation
To free yourself from a promise or duty that controls your life
Antonyms
How Free
Surface Forms
Etymology
Extricate comes from Latin parts ex- meaning 'out' and trica meaning 'a tangle' or 'trouble'. So to extricate someone or something is to pull them 'out' of a problem or a physical tangle.