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Excavate vs Extricate - What's the difference?

excavate | extricate |

In lang=en terms the difference between excavate and extricate

is that excavate is to uncover (something) by removing its covering while extricate is to free, disengage, loosen, or untangle.

As verbs the difference between excavate and extricate

is that excavate is to make a hole in (something); to hollow while extricate is to free, disengage, loosen, or untangle.

As a noun excavate

is (zoology) any member of a major grouping of unicellular eukaryotes, of the clade excavata.

excavate

English

Etymology 1

Known since 1599, from (etyl) .

Verb

(en-verb)
  • To make a hole in (something); to hollow.
  • To remove part of (something) by scooping or digging it out.
  • To uncover (something) by removing its covering.
    • Related terms
    * excavation * excavator

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (wikipedia excavate) (en noun)
  • (zoology) Any member of a major grouping of unicellular eukaryotes, of the clade Excavata.

    • References

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    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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