different between exonerate vs extricate

English

Etymology

From Latin exoner?t-, the participle stem of exoner?re, from exoner? (“to discharge, unload; to exonerate”), from ex- (prefix denoting privation) + oner? (“to burden, lade; to load”) (from onus (“burden, load”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?énh?os (“burden, load”), from *h?enh?- (“to charge, onerate”)). The English word is cognate with French exonérer.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???z?n??e?t/, /??-/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???z?n???e?t/, /??-/
• Hyphenation: ex?o?ner?ate

Verb

exonerate (third-person singular simple present exonerates, present participle exonerating, simple past and past participle exonerated)

1. (transitive, archaic) To relieve (someone or something) of a load; to unburden (a load).
2. (obsolete, reflexive) Of a body of water: to discharge or empty (itself).
3. (transitive) To free (someone) from an obligation, responsibility or task.
4. (transitive) To free (someone) from accusation or blame.

   Synonyms: acquit, exculpate; see also Thesaurus:acquit

Derived terms

• exonerated (adjective)
• exoneration
• exonerative
• exonerator

Translations

Adjective

exonerate

1. (archaic) Freed from an obligation; freed from accusation or blame; acquitted, exonerated.

Latin

Verb

exoner?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of exoner?

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin extricatus, past participle of extric?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ks.t??.ke?t/

Verb

extricate (third-person singular simple present extricates, present participle extricating, simple past and past participle extricated)

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
   • 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.

Related terms

• extrication

Translations

References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “extricate”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN

Latin

Verb

extr?c?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of extr?c?