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extricate

verb
/ˈɛks.tɹɪ.keɪt/

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin extrīcātus, past participle of extrīcō. Compare intricate.

  1. borrowed from extrīcātus

Definitions

  1. To free, disengage, loosen, or untangle.

    • I finally managed to extricate myself from the tight jacket.
    • The firefighters had to use the jaws of life to extricate Monica from the car wreck.

  2. To free from intricacies or perplexity.

    • Your argumentation ... is invelloped with certain intricacies, that are not easie to be extricated.

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Derived

unextricated

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at extricate. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at extricate. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at extricate

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA