Extricate

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈɛks.tɹɪ.keɪt/

Origin

From Latin extricatus, past participle of extricō.

Full definition of extricate

Verb

1. (transitive) To free, disengage, loosen, or untangle.I finally managed to extricate myself from the tight jacket.The firemen had to use the jaws of life to extricate Monica from the car wreck.
2. (rare) To free from intricacies or perplexity
• 1662: Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue Two)Your argumentation ... is invelloped with certain intricacies, that are not easie to be extricated.