Verb

(en verb)

To draw out or forth; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.

to extract a tooth from its socket, a stump from the earth, or a splinter from the finger

* Milton

The bee / Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)

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To withdraw by expression, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process. Compare abstract (transitive verb).

to extract an essential oil from a plant

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=72-3, magazine=(The Economist)

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To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book.

* Jonathan Swift

I have extracted out of that pamphlet a few notorious falsehoods.

(arithmetic) To determine (a root of a number).

Verb

(retriev)

To regain or get back something.

to retrieve''' one's character or independence; to '''retrieve a thrown ball

* Dryden

With late repentance now they would retrieve / The bodies they forsook, and wish to live.

To rescue (a) creature(s)

To salvage something

To remedy or rectify something.

To remember or recall something.

To fetch or carry back something.

* Berkeley

to retrieve them from their cold, trivial conceits

To fetch and bring in game.

The cook doesn't care what's shot, only what's actually retrieved .

To fetch and bring in game systematically.

Dog breeds called 'retrievers' were selected for retrieving .

To fetch or carry back systematically, notably as a game.

Most dogs love retrieving , regardless of what object is thrown.

(sports) To make a difficult but successful return of the ball.

(obsolete) To remedy the evil consequence of, to repair (a loss or damage).

* Prior

Accept my sorrow, and retrieve my fall.

* Burke

There is much to be done and much to be retrieved .