Synonyms for extract
- verb
- noun
Definitions
- v. 1
To 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
- v. 2
To withdraw by squeezing, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process. Compare abstract (transitive verb).
to extract an essential oil from a plant
- n. 1
Ancestry; descent.
- n. 2
Something that is extracted or drawn out.
Related words
Example sentences
- remove Please remove that chair because it is in the way.
- elicit Everyone knows that luck and wealth elicit envy.
- derive You will derive great benefits from learning English.
By length
- 4 letters
- find1, pick1, pull1, draw1, cite1
- 5 letters
- quote1, evoke2, glean1, educe
- 6 letters
- choose1, remove2, select2, origin3, gather2, render2, derive2, elicit3, extort2, distil2
- 7 letters
- express2, collect2, passage2, essence2, excerpt2, distill2, outdraw
- 8 letters
- citation3, infusion3
- 9 letters
- selection3, reduction3, quotation3, deduction3, decoction
- 10 letters
- extraction3, excerption
- 12 letters
- quintessence3
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (evoke2 = 2 syllables).