The word for today is…
extricate (verb):
1 : to free or remove from an entanglement or difficulty
2a : to distinguish from a related thing
b archaic : unravel
Source : Merriam -Webster
Etymology : It can take an ample amount of dexterity – manual, verbal, or mental – to free yourself from a tangled situation. This can be seen in extricate, a word derived from Latin extricatus, which combines the prefix ex- (“out of”) with the noun tricae, meaning “trifles or perplexities.” (The resemblance of tricae to our word trick is no illusion; it’s an ancestor.) While a number of words (such as “disentangle”) share with extricate the meaning of “to free from difficulty,” extricate suggests the act of doing so with care and ingenuity, as in “Through months of careful budgeting, he was able to extricate himself from his financial burdens.”
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