extricate
/ˈɛkstrəˌkeɪt/
verb
- To free or remove someone or something from a difficult, tangled, or trapped situation.
- The cat had to be extricated from the tree by the fire department.
- She managed to extricate herself from the boring conversation by pretending to get a phone call.
- The rescue team worked for hours to extricate the driver from the wrecked car.
- To separate or distinguish something from a larger or more complex whole.
- From the tangled story, I could barely extricate the main plot.
- The accountant tried to extricate the relevant expenses from the messy receipts.
- It took the historian years to extricate the facts from the myths in the old documents.