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Evacuation vs Extricate - What's the difference?

evacuation | extricate |

As a noun evacuation

is evacuation (act of emptying).

As a verb extricate is

to free, disengage, loosen, or untangle.

evacuation

English

(wikipedia evacuation)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of emptying, clearing of the contents, or discharging, including creating a vacuum.
  • Withdrawal of troops or civils from a town, fortress, etc.
  • Voidance of any matter by the natural passages of the body or by an artificial opening; defecation; also, a diminution of the fluids of an animal body by cathartics, venesection, or other means.
  • The act of evacuating; leaving a place in an orderly fashion; especially for protection
  • That which is evacuated or discharged; especially, a discharge by stool or other natural means.
    • (Quincy)
  • Abolition; nullification.
    • (Hooker)

    Derived terms

    * evac * Evacuation Day * med-evac * noncombatant evacuation operations * tactical aeromedical evacuation

    Related terms

    * evacuee * evacuate * evacuation slide

    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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