Word · Frequency #15136
extricate
使摆脱；使解脱；救出
to free someone or something from a difficult or complicated situation
常与 from 连用，表示使某人/某物摆脱困境或纠缠。
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To free, disengage, loosen, or untangle.
使自由、脱离、松开或解开。
使自由、脱离、松开或解开。；使解脱；救出
In use
She finally managed to extricate herself from the boring meeting.
Firefighters extricated a trapped passenger from the overturned car.
He carefully extricates a piece of paper from the jammed printer.
extricate sb from sth
The rescue team extricated the passengers from the overturned bus.
救援队把乘客从翻倒的公交车中救了出来。
extricate oneself from sth
主语通常为人，用反身代词 oneself 表示“使自己摆脱困境”。
She finally extricated herself from a toxic relationship.
她最终摆脱了一段有害的关系。
Verb forms
base extricate · third person extricates · -ing extricating · past extricated · past participle extricated
及物动词，常与 from 连用，表示使解脱、救出。
Common mistakes
She finally extricated from the financial trouble.She finally extricated herself from the financial trouble.
extricate 是及物动词，表示“使某人/某物摆脱”，若主语是自己摆脱困境，通常要用反身代词 oneself 作宾语，再接 from；错句少了 herself，导致宾语缺失。
He was extricate from the wrecked car by firefighters.He was extricated from the wrecked car by firefighters.
被动语态中 be 动词后要用过去分词。extricate 是规则动词，过去分词和过去式都是 extricated，不能用动词原形。
The rescue team extricated the climber out of the crevice.The rescue team extricated the climber from the crevice.
extricate 与介词 from 固定搭配，表示“从……中救出/解脱”；受汉语“从……中出来”的影响误用 out of，不符合英语搭配。
Connections
Collocations
- extricate oneself from a difficult situation
- 使自己摆脱困境
- He managed to extricate himself from a difficult situation with a clever excuse.他靠一个巧妙的借口设法摆脱了困境。
- extricate someone from debt
- 使某人摆脱债务
- A small loan helped extricate the family from debt.一笔小额贷款帮助这个家庭摆脱了债务。
- extricate the car from the mud
- 把汽车从淤泥中救出
- Firefighters worked for hours to extricate the car from the mud.消防员花了几个小时把汽车从淤泥里拖出来。
- extricate the company from a crisis
- 使公司摆脱危机
- The new CEO extricated the company from a financial crisis.新任首席执行官使公司摆脱了财务危机。
Idioms & figurative uses
- extricate oneself from
Learner notes
Memory Tip
记忆：ex（向外）+ tric（似tricky‘棘手的’）+ ate，从棘手的纠缠中脱身——使解脱、救出。
Context & Register
语域：formal 常见场景：正式写作、新闻报道、官方报告 该词通常用于正式或书面语境，多出现在新闻报道、官方文件或文学作品中；日常口语中更常说 get (someone) out of 或 free (someone) from。
Grammar Note
常接宾语，与 from 连用，表示‘使某人/某物从……中解脱或救出’。
Pronunciation & Spelling
说明：这些词都包含相同的拼写片段 -icate，但读音有差异。extricate 重音在第一音节，读作 /ˈekstrɪkeɪt/，末尾 -icate 读 /-ɪkeɪt/。indicate、fabricate、lubricate、duplicate、explicate 作为动词时，-icate 也读 /-ɪkeɪt/，但因重音不同，并非严格押韵。注意 intricate 是形近词：作形容词时读 /ˈɪntrɪkət/，末尾 -icate 不读 /-keɪt/，不要由拼写类推读音。
Learn the forms together
页面下方列出了常见词形变化。学习时注意它们在句子中的语法位置。
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.