Exclude vs Extricate - What's the difference?
exclude | extricate |
To bar (someone) from entering; to keep out.
To expel; to put out.
(legal, of evidence) To refuse to accept as valid.
(medicine) To eliminate from diagnostic consideration.
To free, disengage, loosen, or untangle.
(rare) To free from intricacies or perplexity
* 1662: Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue Two)
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 exclude young animals from the womb or from eggs
Antonyms
* includeextricate
English
Verb
(extricat)- 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.
- Your argumentation ... is invelloped with certain intricacies, that are not easie to be extricated .