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Extricate vs Absolve - What's the difference?

extricate | absolve |

In lang=en terms the difference between extricate and absolve

is that extricate is to free, disengage, loosen, or untangle while absolve is to pass a course or test; to gain credit for a class; to qualify academically.

As verbs the difference between extricate and absolve

is that extricate is to free, disengage, loosen, or untangle while absolve is to set free, release or discharge (from obligations, debts, responsibility etc) .

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 .

    References

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    absolve

    English

    Verb

    (absolv)
  • To set free, release or discharge (from obligations, debts, responsibility etc.).
  • You will absolve a subject from his allegiance.
  • *
  • (obsolete) To resolve; to explain; to solve.
  • * '>citation
  • To pronounce free from or give absolution for a penalty, blame, or guilt.
  • (legal) To pronounce not guilty; to grant a pardon for.
  • *
  • (theology) To grant a remission of sin; to give absolution to.
  • *
  • (theology) To remit a sin; to give absolution for a sin.
  • *
  • (obsolete) To finish; to accomplish.
  • * , line 94
  • and the work begun, how soon absolv’d ,
  • To pass a course or test; to gain credit for a class; to qualify academically.
  • Usage notes

    * Normally followed by the word from . * Normally followed by the word from .

    Synonyms

    * (set free) excuse, exempt, free, release * (pronounce free or give absolution) acquit, exculpate, exonerate, pardon, remit, vindicate * remit

    Derived terms

    * absolver

    References

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