Word Meanings - EXTRICATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

extricate; ex out + tricae trifles, impediments, perplexities. Cf. 1. To free, as from difficulties or perplexities; to disentangle; to disembarrass; as, to extricate a person from debt, peril, etc. We had now extricated ourselves from the various

Additional info about word: EXTRICATE

extricate; ex out + tricae trifles, impediments, perplexities. Cf. 1. To free, as from difficulties or perplexities; to disentangle; to disembarrass; as, to extricate a person from debt, peril, etc. We had now extricated ourselves from the various labyrinths and defiles. Eustance. 2. To cause to be emitted or evolved; as, to extricate heat or moisture. Syn. -- To disentangle; disembarrass; disengage; relieve; evolve; set free; liberate.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of EXTRICATE)

• Clean Clarify
• disencumber
• disentangle
• disembarrass
• vindicate
• liberate
• set free
• release
• exonerate
• exculpate
• justify
• retrieve
• acquit
• absolve
• whitewash
• extricate
• eliminate
• Release Free
• loose
• discharge
• quit
• exempt
• disengage
• indemnify
• Rescue Retake
• recover
• recapture
• save
• deliver
• preserve

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of EXTRICATE)

• Tie
• fasten
• hold
• retain
• Bind
• constrain
• confine
• shackle
• fetter
• yoke

Related words: (words related to EXTRICATE)

• DELIVERANCE
  Any fact or truth which is decisively attested or intuitively known as a psychological or philosophical datum; as, the deliverance of consciousness. (more info) 1. The act of delivering or freeing from restraint, captivity, peril, and the like;
• CLEANSABLE
  Capable of being cleansed. Sherwood.
• CLEAN-CUT
  See CLEAR-CUT
• ELIMINATE
  To cause to disappear from an equation; as, to eliminate an unknown quantity. 3. To set aside as unimportant in a process of inductive inquiry; to leave out of consideration. Eliminate errors that have been gathering and accumulating. Lowth. 4.
• CLEANNESS
  1. The state or quality of being clean. 2. Purity of life or language; freedom from licentious courses. Chaucer.
• DELIVERABLE
  Capable of being, or about to be, delivered; necessary to be delivered. Hale.
• RESCUER
  One who rescues.
• DISENCUMBER
  To free from encumbrance, or from anything which clogs, impedes, or obstructs; to disburden. Owen. I have disencumbered myself from rhyme. Dryden.
• RETAINMENT
  The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More.
• CLEANING
  1. The act of making clean. 2. The afterbirth of cows, ewes, etc. Gardner.
• RECAPTURE
  1. The act of retaking or recovering by capture; especially, the retaking of a prize or goods from a captor. 2. That which is captured back; a prize retaken.
• FASTENER
  One who, or that which, makes fast or firm.
• CLEANLINESS
  State of being cleanly; neatness of person or dress. Cleanliness from head to heel. Swift.
• CONSTRAINTIVE
  Constraining; compulsory. "Any constraintive vow." R. Carew.
• CLEANLY
  1. Habitually clean; pure; innocent. "Cleanly joys." Glanvill. Some plain but cleanly country maid. Dryden. Displays her cleanly platter on the board. Goldsmith. 2. Cleansing; fitted to remove moisture; dirt, etc. "With cleanly powder dry their
• FETTERLESS
  Free from fetters. Marston.
• EXEMPTIBLE
  That may be exempted.
• SHACKLE
  1. To tie or confine the limbs of, so as to prevent free motion; to bind with shackles; to fetter; to chain. To lead him shackled, and exposed to scorn Of gathering crowds, the Britons' boasted chief. J. Philips. 2. Figuratively: To bind or confine
• EXTRICATE
  extricate; ex out + tricae trifles, impediments, perplexities. Cf. 1. To free, as from difficulties or perplexities; to disentangle; to disembarrass; as, to extricate a person from debt, peril, etc. We had now extricated ourselves from the various
• RETAKE
  1. To take or receive again. 2. To take from a captor; to recapture; as, to retake a ship or prisoners.
• ACQUIT
  Acquitted; set free; rid of. Shak.
• REDELIVER
  1. To deliver or give back; to return. Ay 2. To deliver or liberate a second time or again. 3. To report; to deliver the answer of. "Shall I redeliver you e'en so" Shak.
• CONFINER
  One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
• RECOVER
  To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
• RELEASE
  To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
• REDELIVERY
  1. Act of delivering back. 2. A second or new delivery or liberation.
• UNCLEAN
  1. Not clean; foul; dirty; filthy. 2. Ceremonially impure; needing ritual cleansing. He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days. Num. xix. 11. 3. Morally impure. "Adultery of the heart, consisting of inordinate