extricatev.
/ˈɛkstrɪkeɪt/ 1. transitive. To unravel (what is tangled); figurative to clear of intricacies or perplexities. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > expound, explain [verb (transitive)]
arecchec885
unloukOE
overrunOE
sutelec1000
trahtnec1000
unfolda1050
belayc1175
openc1175
onopena1200
accountc1300
undo?a1366
remenea1382
interpret1382
unwrap1387
exploitc1390
enlumine1393
declarec1400
expoundc1400
unplait?c1400
enperc1420
planea1425
clearc1440
exponec1440
to lay outc1440
to give (also carry) lightc1449
unwind1482
expose1483
reducea1500
manifest1530
explicate1531
explaina1535
unlock?1536
dilucidate1538
elucidate1538
illustrate1538
rechec1540
explicate1543
illucidate1545
enucleate1548
unsnarl1555
commonstrate1563
to lay forth1577
straighten1577
unbroid1577
untwist1577
decipherc1586
illuminate1586
enlighten1587
resolvec1592
cipher1594
eliquidate1596
to take (a person) with one1599
rivelc1600
ravel1604
unbowel1606
unmist1611
extricate1614
unbolta1616
untanglea1616
enode1623
unperplexa1631
perspicuate1634
explata1637
unravel1637
esclarea1639
clarify1642
unweave1642
detenebrate1646
dismystery1652
undecipher1654
unfork1654
unparadox1654
reflect1655
enodate1656
unmysterya1661
liquidatea1670
recognize1676
to clear upa1691
to throw sidelight on1726
to throw (also cast, shed) light on (also upon)1731
eclaircise1754
irradiate1864
unbraid1880
predigest1905
to get (something) straight1920
disambiguate1960
demystify1963
1614 J. Selden Titles of Honor 384 Neither do I see any Ciuilian able to extricat it enough cleanly.
a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) i. i. 40 This..extricateth that Question which hath so troubled the World.
1678 R. Cudworth tr. Apuleius in True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 350 Thou extricatest the involved threds of Fate.
1684 J. Ray Corr. (1848) 139 Extricating what is perplex and entangled.
1833 A. Alison Hist. Europe during French Revol. II. xvi. 443 Some methods of extricating public affairs.
2.
a. To disentangle (a person or thing); to disengage, set free from, out of (anything that entangles, a state of confinement, difficulty, or entanglement).
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the world > action or operation > easiness > find no difficulty in [verb (transitive)] > make easy or easier > extricate from difficulties
windc1535
unreave1593
disentangle1611
explicate1614
extricatea1631
districate1632
untwist1637
exintricate1661
society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > liberation > set free [verb (transitive)] > free from restraint > free from entanglement
untangle1575
outwind1596
extricatea1631
a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1959) III. 357 If wee search farther into these points, than the Scripture hath opened us a way, how shall wee hope to..extricate our selves?
1654 True State Commw. 24 The sense of law could neuer have been extricated out of endless intanglements.
1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 37 All the Springs of the several parts..immediately extricate themselves and fly asunder every way.
a1732 T. Boston Crook in Lot (1805) 12 A thicket, out of which he knows not how to extricate himself.
1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature V. 388 Extricate yourselves from prejudice.
1863 F. A. Kemble Jrnl. Resid. Georgian Plantation 46 Having at length extricated myself from the group.
1866 R. Owen On Anat. Vertebr. I. xii. §120. 635 The rest [of the development of the embryo] is completed and the young extricated in..two months.
1870 B. Disraeli Lothair (new ed.) vii Lothair had promised to extricate his friend from his overwhelming difficulties.
b. Chemistry. To liberate, disengage (gas, etc.) from a state of combination.
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the world > matter > chemistry > chemical reactions or processes > subject to chemical reactions or processes [verb (transitive)] > subject to named chemical reaction or process > subject to miscellaneous other processes
reduce?a1425
weaken1540
projecta1550
brown1570
spiritualize1593
colliquate1603
redisperse1621
imbibe1626
educe1651
to cant off1658
part1663
regalize1664
dint1669
roche1679
subtilizea1722
neutralize1744
develop1756
evolve1772
extricate1790
separate1805
unburn1815
leach1860
methylate1864
nitrate1872
nitre1880
sweeten1885
deflocculate1909
hybridize1959
1790 Keir in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 80 365 The quantity of nitrous gas extricated during this action on the tin.
1838 T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies 19 The atom of water may be extricated from the acid.
1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) III. 557 The carbonic acid and other offensive gases..extricated.
Derivatives
ˈextricated adj.
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the world > action or operation > easiness > [adjective] > not hindering or encumbering > not hindered or encumbered
freeeOE
unletted?a1425
unimpeachedc1430
frank1481
nearc1520
untangled1539
unclogged1548
uncumbered1551
unprevented1572
cumberless1581
unentangleda1586
undebarred1595
unstayed1600
disencumbered1611
unhindered1615
unretarded1615
unstopped1621
unobstructed1648
unengaged1653
extricated1657
unbeclogged1674
unhampered1702
unembarrassed1708
unencumbered1722
unstemmed1732
disembarrassed1741
unstifled1742
unimpeded1760
smooth1792
untrammelled1795
unintercepted1814
unmired1834
frictionless1848
unsmothereda1849
unbalked1888
unlocked1890
1657 T. Reeve God's Plea for Nineveh 29 If man which is but an implicated and mixt Agent, how much more God [may lord it], who is an extricated and free Agent?
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