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Belonging vs Extricate - What's the difference?

belonging | extricate |

As verbs the difference between belonging and extricate

is that belonging is while extricate is to free, disengage, loosen, or untangle.

As a noun belonging

is (uncountable) the action of the verb to belong .

belonging

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

  • (uncountable) The action of the verb to belong .
  • I have a feeling of belonging in London.
    A need for belonging seems fundamental to humans.
  • (countable) (almost always used in the plural ) Something physical that is owned.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Thyself and thy belongings .
    Make sure you take all your belongings when you leave.
  • (colloquial, dated) family; relations; household
  • * Thackeray
  • Few persons of her ladyship's belongings stopped, before they did her bidding, to ask her reasons.

    Synonyms

    * (something physical that is owned) possession, thing

    extricate

    English

    Verb

    (extricat)
  • To free, disengage, loosen, or untangle.
  • I finally managed to extricate myself from the tight jacket.
    The firemen had to use the jaws of life to extricate Monica from the car wreck.
  • (rare) To free from intricacies or perplexity
  • * 1662: Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue Two)
  • Your argumentation ... is invelloped with certain intricacies, that are not easie to be extricated .

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