verb🔗ShareTo draw out; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc."to extract a tooth from its socket, a stump from the earth, or a splinter from the finger"actionprocessChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo withdraw by expression, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process. Compare abstract (transitive verb)."to extract an essential oil from a plant"chemistryprocessscienceindustrytechnologyChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book."The teacher extracted several key sentences from the article to help the students understand the main idea. ""The teacher extracted a short paragraph from the novel for us to analyze. "languageliteraturewritingChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo select parts of a whole"We need to try to extract the positives from the defeat."processpartindustrytechnicalChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo determine (a root of a number)."Please extract the cube root of 27."mathnumberChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading