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单词 extricate
释义
extricate
verb[T]
formal
uk
/ˈek.strɪ.keɪt/us
/ˈek.strɪ.keɪt/
toremovesomething or set somethingfreewithdifficulty:
使摆脱，使脱离；解救
It tookhoursto extricate thecarfromthesand.用了几个小时才把陷入沙地中的车拉了出来。
Itriedto extricate myselffromthesituation.我试图从这种局面中摆脱出来。
Synonyms
disentangle
untangle
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Removing and extracting
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  • abstract
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  • bowdlerize
  • bowdlerized
  • clear the decksidiom
  • drain
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  • letsomeonedown
  • over-extraction
  • pick
  • pluck
  • pull
  • pump
  • scoop
  • scratch
  • unboxing
  • undrained
  • wipesomethingoffsomething
  • yank
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(Definition ofextricatefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

extricate| American Dictionary

extricate
verb[T]
us
/ˈek·strɪˌkeɪt/
toremove,release, orfreesomeone or something from adifficultconditionorsituation:
They neededucationand othereconomicopportunitiesinorderto extricate themselves frompoverty.
Thepresidentoutlinedaplanto extricate thetroopsif thesituationworsened.
(Definition ofextricatefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofextricate

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On the contrary, he first tried to successfully eliminate all possible options, and later tried toextricatethose that resisted elimination.
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So absolutely do ' ' lines and boundaries ' ' blur, that it is difficult toextricateprimary and secondary subject (or body) from the metaphor's focal term.
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At the same time, they could not altogetherextricatethemselves from their culture.
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Both ships were fast in the ice; 'those on board were alive, but in low spirits,' with little hope of being extricated.
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This does not help a bit toextricatearchaeology from wizened determinism.
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A great many reconsidered their political position and tried to avoid orextricatethemselves from a party preaching political violence.
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Consequently, in a second attempt toextricateitself from the political backwaters, a new strategy was developed in the 1980s.
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Others try in various ways toextricatethemselves from the web.
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It is not possible toextricatefrom a gesture the individual moments of movement and adjustment that make up the overall gesture.
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Resolving this question requires extricating the aspectual effects of verbal -s from those of the simple present.
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This interpretation of imperialism was possible mainly because the development of capitalism was extricated from the imperium.
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In this horrifying discovery there lies a dynamic the author cannotextricateherself from and must follow.
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As a result, he is transformed into a passive almost effeminate being who remains neutral and who extricates himself from social and political life.
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A pervasive and insidious traditional culture continues to haunt him no matter how he tries toextricatehimself from it.
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In addition, it helped toextricatethe field from its obsession with not looking outside the womb, and only focusing on closed-economy models.
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