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extricate

🇬🇧 UK/ˈekstrikeit/🇺🇸 US/'ekstrikeit/
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Definitions

v.

To free someone or something from a difficult, complicated, or entangled situation

使解脱,救出,摆脱(困境)

🧩 Root Breakdown

Root-derived
exout of, former
+
tricentangled, complicated
+
ateto make, having
=extricate

Common Collocations

  • 1.extricate from从...中解脱
  • 2.extricate oneself使自己摆脱

Example Sentences

  • 1.

    The firefighters worked quickly to extricate the trapped victims from wreckage.

  • 2.

    He finally managed to extricate himself from the complicated relationship.

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