The Clue
Pries out (8 letter answer)
The Answer
EXTRACTS
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Notes
The answer EXTRACTS is so rare that it appears less than once every 2500 puzzles.
Definition
EXTRACT as a noun:
1. (infusion, extract) = a solution obtained by steeping or soaking a substance (usually in water)
2. (excerpt, excerption, extract, selection) = a passage selected from a larger work; "he presented excerpts from William James' philosophical writings"
EXTRACT as a verb:
1. (extract, pull out, pull, pull up, take out, draw out) = remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense; "pull weeds"; "extract a bad tooth"; "take out a splinter"; "extract information from the telegram"
2. get despite difficulties or obstacles; "I extracted a promise from the Dean for two new positions"
3. (educe, evoke, elicit, extract, draw out) = deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning); "We drew out some interesting linguistic data from the native informant"
4. (distill, extract, distil) = extract by the process of distillation; "distill the essence of this compound"
5. separate (a metal) from an ore
6. (press out, express, extract) = obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action; "Italians express coffee rather than filter it"
7. (excerpt, extract, take out) = take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy
8. calculate the root of a number