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Exclude vs Extricate - What's the difference?

exclude | extricate |

As verbs the difference between exclude and extricate

is that exclude is to bar (someone) from entering; to keep out while extricate is to free, disengage, loosen, or untangle.

exclude

English

Verb

(exclud)
  • To bar (someone) from entering; to keep out.
  • To expel; to put out.
  • to exclude young animals from the womb or from eggs
  • (legal, of evidence) To refuse to accept as valid.
  • (medicine) To eliminate from diagnostic consideration.
  • Antonyms

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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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