extricate

/ˈɛkstɹəˌkeɪt/

to free someone or something from a constraint or difficulty

extricate in a sentence

“It took hours to extricate the car from the mud.”

Latin extricare to disentangle from ex- out + tricae perplexities, hindrances

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