extricate
/EK-strih-kayt/verbto free from a constraint or difficulty
“It took a crane to extricate the truck from the ditch.”
- Synonyms
- free, disentangle, release
- Antonyms
- entangle, ensnare
- Memory hook
- ex + tricae (perplexities): out of the tangle.
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