Extricate vs Untangled - What's the difference?
extricate | untangled |
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)
(untangle)
Not tangled.
To remove tangles or knots.
(by extension) To remove confusion or mystery.
As verbs the difference between extricate and untangled
is that extricate is to free, disengage, loosen, or untangle while untangled is past tense of untangle.As an adjective untangled is
not tangled.extricate
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 .
References
* ----untangled
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Verb
(head)Adjective
(-)untangle
English
Verb
(untangl)- With gentle combing, untangle your hair.
- It took awhile, but he finally untangled the problem.