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Another word for extract

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Verb

  1. To remove from a fixed position

    See also:

    put in

  2. To collect (something) bit by bit

    See also:

    collect

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Another word for extract

Noun

  1. An excerpt

    See also:

    quotation

  2. Essence

    See also:

    essence

Verb

  1. To pry out

    See also:

    remove

  2. To obtain

    See also:

    obtain

  3. To cite

    See also:

    cite

Synonym Study

  • Extort suggests a forcing or wresting of something, as by violence or threats to extort a ransom
  • Evoke implies a calling forth or summoning, as of a mental image, by stimulating the emotions the odor evoked a memory of childhood
  • Elicit connotes difficulty or skill in drawing out something hidden or buried careful questioning elicited a reasonable account of the accident
  • Educe suggests a drawing out or evolving of something that is latent or undeveloped laws were educed from tribal customs
  • Extract implies a drawing out of something, as if by pulling, sucking, etc.to extract a promise
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Sentence Examples

  • To extract the metal, the pitchblende is first roasted in order to remove the arsenic and sulphur.

  • According to Harnack, it is an extract from the Gospel of the Egyptians.

  • Because they wanted to keep her alive long enough to extract it then walk away?

  • They aren't responsible for the oil being in Alaska and do nothing to extract the oil from the earth.

  • 10, § 12) - hence its highly rhetorical character - from which Eusebius gives the extract about the Essenes; while this in its turn may have constituted the fourth book of a large work entitled ("sarcastically," says Eusebius, H.E.

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