extricated

verb

past tense of extricate
as in freed
to set free from entanglement or difficulty you've woven such a web of lies that it's hard to see how you can extricate yourself now

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Recent Examples of extricated The man, who was successfully extricated from the tank, was conscious as he was brought to the surface, officials said. — Briauna Brown, CBS News, 25 Aug. 2026 Four people were injured in the crash, and one person had to be extricated from one of the vehicles, according to the fire department. — Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 9 Aug. 2026 Sacramento Fire Department crews extricated the truck driver, who was trapped in the wreckage. — Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 27 July 2026 Members of the fire department and Plymouth County Dive Team eventually extricated Carrara out of the two-seat plane. — Colleen Cronin, Boston Herald, 16 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for extricated
  1. freed
  2. liberated
  3. saved
  4. disentangled
  5. rescued
Verb
  • Put differently, blindness, two-handedness, and the continuous line are restraints that freed Nauman from the habits of description.
    — Jeffrey Weiss, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2026
  • The team uses the time freed up by technology to understand their clients better.
    — Jason Phillips, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of freed
Verb
  • The capital of Luxembourg was liberated on September 10, 1944, but Grand Duchess Charlotte was able to return home a few months later, on April 14, 1945.
    — Giorgia Olivieri, Vanity Fair, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Julie Klausner would like comedy liberated from the phone and returned to the sitcom.
    — Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of liberated
Verb
  • Evidence on price caps Researchers found that after two years under the price limit, Oregon saved over $107 million and outpatient prices per procedure fell by 25%.
    — Alex Olgin, NPR, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Overall, more than 250 million people globally received the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, while COVID vaccinations as a whole are estimated to have saved at least 14 million lives in the first year of their rollout alone.
    — Preston Fore, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of saved
Verb
  • Systems have to be disentangled, employees moved, contracts rewritten, and corporate functions recreated.
    — Jim Osman, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
  • To pretend that a cover is merely incidental is to ignore how much of literature is extraliterary, as if consciousness can be easily disentangled from the body.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of disentangled
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  • Of those rescued, 114 are Indians, 27 are Chinese, and 20 are from South Korea, the US, Europe and the Gulf, according to a bulletin published by the Nepal Tourism Board.
    — Sophie Tanno, CNN Money, 29 Aug. 2026
  • The Nepal Tourism Board said 261 foreign nationals have been rescued.
    — Freddie Clayton, NBC news, 29 Aug. 2026
Definition of rescued

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“Extricated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/extricated. Accessed 2 Sep. 2026.

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