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Extricate: meaning, example and synonyms

Extricatev. To free from a difficult situation or entanglement, often with effort.

Flashcard for Extricate (verb): to free from a difficult situation or entanglement, often with effort. Example: Having signed the contract hastily, the publisher spent two years trying to extricate itself from obligations that drained its modest budget. Synonyms: free, release, disentangle, liberate. Antonyms: entangle, trap, ensnare, embroil. Memory tip: ex (out) + tricae (tangles): getting out of the tangles. Illustration: a fully clothed boy standing on a ladder carefully untangling a red kite whose string is caught in the branches of a tall tree, a friend holding the ladder below.

Example

Having signed the contract hastily, the publisher spent two years trying to extricate itself from obligations that drained its modest budget.

Part of speech
verb
Synonyms
free, release, disentangle, liberate
Antonyms
entangle, trap, ensnare, embroil
Memory tip
ex (out) + tricae (tangles): getting out of the tangles.

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Question 1

Having overcommitted to three conflicting projects, the engineer struggled to ______ herself without damaging her reputation with any of the clients.

Question 2

Rescue workers spent hours carefully cutting away the collapsed fencing to ______ the trapped calf, which emerged frightened but unhurt.

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