Extricate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To release from an entanglement or difficulty; disengage.
  • v. Archaic To distinguish from something related.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To free, disengage, loosen, or untangle.
  • v. To free from intricacies or perplexity
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To free, as from difficulties or perplexities; to disentangle; to disembarrass
  • v. To cause to be emitted or evolved.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To disentangle; disengage; free: as, to extricate one from a perilous or embarrassing situation; to extricate one's self from debt.
  • To set loose or free; evolve; excrete.
  • Synonyms Disentangle, etc. (see disengage); relieve, deliver, set free.
  • In entomology, extruded: applied to the ovipositor when the valves and vagina are entirely without the body, whether in use or not, as in many Ichneumonidæ.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. release from entanglement of difficulty
  • Verb Form
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    free    disengage   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    set free    relieve    disentangle    liberate    disembarrass