extricate
Word family adjectiveextricableverbextricatenounextrication
ex·tri·cate /ˈekstrɪkeɪt/ verb [transitiveT] 1 ESCAPEto escape from a difficult or embarrassing situation, or to help someone escape 使摆脱,使脱离extricate yourself/somebody from something How was he going to extricate himself from this situation? 他打算怎样摆脱这种局面?
2 REMOVEto remove someone from a place in which they are trapped 解救,救出extricate somebody/yourself from something Firemen had to extricate the driver from the wreckage. 消防员得把司机从残骸中解救出来。
extricate somebody/yourself from something• I helped Professor Cousins extricate himself from his chair.• He can speak eloquently of the need to reduce the size of government and extricate it from our private lives.• Then he turned, extricating himself from the clutter round his feet, and went, with great dignity, downstairs.• It is easiest to extricate rabbits from the nets if you kill them first.• Gao Yang had an unobstructed view of the man extricating his foot from the pot.• A complicated story unfolds, with Mitchum desperately trying to extricate himself from the trap.• It is not known when Napoleon managed to extricate himself from this chaos. Origin extricate (1600-1700) Latin past participle of extricare, from tricae “small difficulties”