extricate

/EK-strih-kayt/verb

to 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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