EXTRICATE


Meaning of EXTRICATE in English

verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ VERB

try

And it didn't help to have that idiot Kegan see what he bad done and try to extricate him.

A complicated story unfolds, with Mitchum desperately trying to extricate himself from the trap.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

It took firemen almost an hour to extricate the driver from the wrecked car.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A complicated story unfolds, with Mitchum desperately trying to extricate himself from the trap.

At the same time he arranged for Burgess to be sent home to extricate Maclean before the net closed.

By nightfall all the rifle companies had been over-run; some sections, and platoons from these companies extricated themselves at nightfall.

Gao Yang had an unobstructed view of the man extricating his foot from the pot.

It is not known when Napoleon managed to extricate himself from this chaos.

They fired away with wild abandon, but luckily with little accuracy, and he was able to extricate himself.

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