Extricate vs Detach - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between extricate and detach

is that extricate is to free, disengage, loosen, or untangle while detach is to take apart from; to take off.

(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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(es)

To take apart from; to take off.

to detach the tag from a newly purchased garment

(military) To separate for a special object or use.

to detach a ship from a fleet, or a company from a regiment

* attach

* detachable * detachment