extricate
verb (formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they extricate | |
| he / she / it extricates | |
| past simple extricated | |
| past participle extricated | |
| -ing form extricating |
- extricate somebody/something/yourself (from something)
to escape or enable somebody to escape from a difficult situation （使）摆脱，脱离，脱出 - extricate somebody/something/yourself (from something)
to free somebody/something or yourself from a place where they/it or you have been stuck and unable to move 解救；救出；挣脱
Word Originearly 17th cent. (in the sense ‘unravel, untangle’): from Latin extricat- ‘unravelled’, from the verb extricare, from ex- ‘out’ + tricae ‘perplexities’.