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# extricate

«extricate» in Mova's school dictionary: **to free them from a trap, a difficulty or something that…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (extricates, extricated, extricating)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To extricate someone or something is to free them from a trap, a difficulty or something that holds them tight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/extricate/#m1)

2) To extricate yourself is to get yourself out of trouble. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/extricate/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in tales a hero frees a princess from fire, a net or a trap; in the lessons it can mean getting out of a tangle

### examples

- The farmer extricated the lamb from the thorn bush. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/extricate/#x1)
- The knight extricated the lady from the burning tower. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/extricate/#x2)
- It took an hour to extricate myself from the tangled kite string. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/extricate/#x3)
- Please help me extricate the cat from the box. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/extricate/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «extricate» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/extricate/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.