Definitions for extricate

extricate ex·tri·cate

Spelling: [ek-stri-keyt]
IPA: /ˈɛk strɪˌkeɪt/

Extricate is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 247 anagrams from letters in extricate (aceeirttx).

Definitions for extricate

verb (used with object)

  1. to free or release from entanglement; disengage:
  2. to liberate (gas) from combination, as in a chemical process.

Origin of extricate

1605-15; Latin extricātus (past participle of extricāre), equivalent to ex- ex-1 + tric(ae) perplexities + -ātus Examples for extricate

Money was needful to extricate him from this drudgery and let him follow up his aspirations.

He could extricate himself by criminating his dead father, but that he should never do.

This week, Merkel ominously said she expects it will take Europe another decade to extricate itself from the crisis.

She lay on her back, struggling vainly to extricate her foot from the stirrup.

A bit more urgent is how to extricate ourselves from this stinker of a GECSTGD.

To extricate himself, he surrendered to the government the management of, and revenues from, most of his property.

But Shakib is in such a business tangle that he could not extricate himself in a day.

Still, he conceived that he had gone too far to extricate himself.

Before the animal could extricate itself Mary-'Gusta had seized it in her arms.

George W. Bush set the trap just over nine years ago, and the Democrats are still trying to extricate themselves.

Word Value for extricate
Scrable

18

Words with friends

19

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