extract
verb (used with object)
to get, pull, or draw out, usually with special effort, skill, or force.
am extracting
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present progressiveof extract (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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The forest wall"—I am extracting from my journal-"under which we are now moving, consists, besides palms, of a great variety of ordinary forest trees.
From The Naturalist on the River Amazons by Henry Walter Bates
