different between extricate vs unfasten

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?

English

Etymology

un- +? fasten

Verb

unfasten (third-person singular simple present unfastens, present participle unfastening, simple past and past participle unfastened)

1. (transitive) To detach from any connecting agency or link; to disconnect.
2. (intransitive) To come unloosed or untied.

Synonyms

• undo

Antonyms

• do up
• button
• button up
• tie up
• zip
• zip up

Hyponyms

• unbutton
• untie
• unzip

Translations

References

• unfasten in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.