The Oxford Thesaurus An A-Z Dictionary of Synonyms - extract v.

1) draw or pull (out) , remove, withdraw, pluck or take out, draw forth, extricate: The dentist extracted two teeth. I extracted some important papers from your waste-paper basket. 2) draw, derive, deduce, develop, glean, extricate, distil, get, obtain: I could extract little sense from her ramblings. 3) wrench, wring, wrest, extort, draw (forth) , evoke, elicit, extricate, winkle out, worm (out) , prise (out) , force (out) : Using torture, they finally extracted a confession from him. She extracted money from her victims by threatening to tell their wives. 4) copy, quote, cite, abstract, select, choose, glean, cull: We extracted useful material from some old encyclopedias. --n. 5) concentrate, distillate, essence, distillation, quintessence, concentration, extraction, decoction: We boiled off the water and used the extract as a salve. 6) excerpt, abstract, quotation, citation, clipping, cutting, passage, selection: Extracts from other works are printed in smaller type.