Extracting
/ɪkˈstræktɪŋ/
Definitions
The act of taking out or removing something, often by force or with effort.
/ɪkˈstræktɪŋ/
To remove or take out something.
The dentist is extracting the decayed tooth.
💡 Simply: Think of extracting like carefully taking something out, like when you get information from a book, or a dentist takes out a bad tooth. It's about separating something from something else.
👶 For kids: Taking something out of something else, like taking a toy out of a box.
More Examples
The company is extracting valuable minerals from the mine.
Extracting relevant information from the document took several hours.
How It's Used
"Scientists are extracting DNA from ancient fossils."
"The company is extracting profits from its investments."
"We are extracting data from the database."
From Latin *extractus*, past participle of *extrahere* ('to draw out, extract'), from *ex-* ('out') + *trahere* ('to draw').
Historically used in alchemy and early chemistry to describe the separation of substances.
Memory tip
Imagine a dentist carefully taking out a tooth – extracting it.