extricate

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin extricatus, past participle of extricō.

verb

  1. (transitive) To free, disengage, loosen, or untangle.
    I finally managed to extricate myself from the tight jacket.
    The firefighters had to use the jaws of life to extricate Monica from the car wreck.
  2. (rare) To free from intricacies or perplexity
    Your argumentation ... is invelloped with certain intricacies, that are not easie to be extricated. 1662: Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue Two)

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