单词	extricate
释义	extricateex‧tri‧cate /ˈekstrɪkeɪt/ verb [transitive] Word Origin WORD ORIGINextricate Origin: 1600-1700 Latin past participle of extricare, from tricae ‘small difficulties’ Verb Table VERB TABLE extricate Simple Form Present I, you, we, they extricate he, she, it extricates Past I, you, he, she, it, we, they extricated Present perfect I, you, we, they have extricated he, she, it has extricated Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had extricated Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will extricate Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have extricated Continuous Form Present I am extricating he, she, it is extricating you, we, they are extricating Past I, he, she, it was extricating you, we, they were extricating Present perfect I, you, we, they have been extricating he, she, it has been extricating Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had been extricating Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will be extricating Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have been extricating Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES It took firemen almost an hour to extricate the driver from the wrecked car. EXAMPLES FROM THE 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. Thesaurus Longman Language Activatorto escape from a difficult/embarrassing/boring situation► escape/get away to get out of a difficult, embarrassing, or boring situation: · He decided to tell me all about his trip to Majorca, and I just couldn't get away.· Let's see if we can escape before the speeches start. ► extricate yourself formal to escape from an embarrassing or difficult situation: · Once they realized that I had been lying, it was almost impossible to extricate myself.extricate yourself from: · At that time, the US was on the verge of extricating itself from the unpopular war. ► talk your way out of to escape from an unpleasant or embarrassing situation by giving explanations, making excuses etc: · I don't know how she's going to talk her way out of this one.· Phil never does his homework, but he always manages to talk his way out of it. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSVERB► 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. 1to escape from a difficult or embarrassing situation, or to help someone escapeextricate yourself/somebody from something How was he going to extricate himself from this situation?2to remove someone from a place in which they are trappedextricate somebody/yourself from something Firemen had to extricate the driver from the wreckage.
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