ISEE/SSAT Vocabulary BuilderWordsEextricate
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extricate
Meaning: to free from a trap, difficulty, or entanglement
extricate in a sentence
How extricate is used in real sentences:
The climber struggled to extricate her boot from the narrow crack.
Firefighters extricated the driver from the crushed vehicle.
“To extricate the team from a dispute that had stalled work for weeks, Velez proposed using desert salt flats and Antarctic snow as stable reference targets.”
— from the passage The Drift Above
Synonyms for extricate
Other words for extricate — disentangle, release and liberate — carry the same meaning.
- disentangle
- release
- liberate
Antonyms of extricate
Words that mean the opposite of extricate:
- entangle
- trap
- ensnare
Where it comes from
From Latin extricare, meaning 'to disentangle.'
Memory hook
EXTRICATE begins like 'exit': to extricate is to find an exit from trouble.