Synonyms of extracting

extracting

verb

present participle of extract

as in pulling

to draw out by force or with effort

extracted a splinter from my hand

Synonyms & Similar Words

• pulling
• prying
• yanking
• plucking
• removing
• uprooting
• tearing (out)
• taking (out)
• wringing
• mining
• rooting (out)
• wresting
• prizing
• withdrawing
• corkscrewing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• inserting
• installing
• instilling
• implanting
• stuffing
• jamming
• wedging
• cramming
• ramming

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of extracting

Refiners turn oil discarded by restaurants and other waste fats into transportation fuel, extracting additional value from crops already grown and oils that have already served their original purpose. — Edward D. Melillo, The Conversation, 30 Sep. 2026

Two oil companies, Britain’s Rockhopper Exploration and Israel’s Navitas Petroleum, are due to begin a joint project extracting from the oilfield within two years. — Harriet Marsden, TheWeek, 30 Sep. 2026

Heat is transferred from surrounding rock into the system rather than extracting hot groundwater from underground formations. — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 28 Sep. 2026

IvyCraft interprets document layouts, page structures, and images instead of extracting text alone. — New Atlas, 24 Sep. 2026

The model can then be reserved for the work that actually requires interpretation, such as reading an adjuster’s unstructured notes and extracting details that predefined rules cannot easily anticipate. — Giles Whiting, Forbes.com, 24 Sep. 2026

The exotic premise is developed with relentless seriousness, even severity, extracting deep pathos from the characters’ eerie reckonings. — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2026

Last year, Works petitioned a county court in Tennessee to exhume the body of Randolph’s son from a Nashville cemetery, with the goal of extracting DNA that Works believes might clear Thomas Jefferson’s name. — Andrew Lawler, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2026

True economic success in 2026 isn’t about extracting the last dollar from a negative-margin middle class. — Katica Roy, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2026