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Extricate vs Unfasten - What's the difference?

extricate | unfasten |

In lang=en terms the difference between extricate and unfasten

is that extricate is to free, disengage, loosen, or untangle while unfasten is to come untied or unloosed.

As verbs the difference between extricate and unfasten

is that extricate is to free, disengage, loosen, or untangle while unfasten is to loose; to unfix; to unbind; to untie; figuratively, to detach from any connecting link or agency; to disconnect.

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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    unfasten

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To loose; to unfix; to unbind; to untie; figuratively, to detach from any connecting link or agency; to disconnect.
  • To come untied or unloosed.
  • Quotations

    * , iv. 1. 209. *: He doth unfasten so and shake a friend.

    Synonyms

    * undo * unbutton * untie * unzip

    Antonyms

    * do up * button * button up * tie up * zip * zip up