extricating
present participle ofextricate
extricate
verb[T]
formaluk/ˈek.strɪ.keɪt/us/ˈek.strɪ.keɪt/toremovesomething or set somethingfreewithdifficulty:
It tookhoursto extricate thecarfromthesand.
Itriedto extricate myselffromthesituation.
Synonyms
disentangle
untangle
Removing and extracting
- ablate
- abstract
- bowdlerization
- bowdlerized
- clear the decksidiom
- drain
- extract
- gougesomethingout
- letsomeonedown
- over-extraction
- pick
- pluck
- scoop
- scratch
- slice
- takesomethingaway
- unboxing
- undrained
- wipesomethingoffsomething
- yank
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Separating and dividing
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In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Resolving this question requiresextricatingthe aspectual effects of verbal -s from those of the simple present.
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All these were imposed upon us, and only with the greatest difficulty are weextricatingourselves from some of them.
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Precipitate intervention, in our view—knowing the difficulties ofextricatingoneself—would have considerable and long-term resource implications.
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Perhaps we shall know whether there is any way ofextricatingthem from the jam.
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Sending in an army is one thing, butextricatingit is another—one hundred times more difficult.
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Extricatingoneself from agreements into which one has entered is always awkward.
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We seem to have cut off any opportunity ofextricatingourselves from that position.
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However, there is a tremendous area between launching an investment andextricatingone's money from an investment that has failed, if one can.
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I hope that the method ofextricatingour forces may provide some way in which we can find unity.
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Today we are looking forward to our programmeextricatinga crucial public service from great difficulty and putting it on a firm road.
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Our entire problem really concerns how to manage the crisis and reduce our deficits and debt, and also how to prepare forextricatingourselves from the crisis.
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The difficult task for responsible political leaders is to make plans for the future and especially to devise means ofextricatingourselves from the immediate crisis.
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Embodied in these three suggestions are the kind of things which are placing secondary education reorganisation in a straitjacket from which local authorities are finding difficulty inextricatingthemselves.
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It is the only chance ofextricatingourselves from the poll tax mire and it offers the chance of doing so without doing further and terrible damage.
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He succeeded in partiallyextricatingthe gunner so that his head was out of water, and held him in this position until the speedboat arrived.
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