tra-, tract-, trac-, -tractive, -traction, -tracting, treat-, trai-

1. Deeply agitated or distracted; especially, from emotional conflicts.
2. Mentally deranged; crazed, insane.

1. To draw or pull out, often with great force or effort; such as, to extract a wisdom tooth; or to use tweezers to extract a splinter.
2. To obtain despite resistance; as, to extract a promise.
3. To obtain from a substance by chemical or mechanical action; as, by pressure, distillation, or evaporation.
4. To remove for separate consideration or publication; to excerpt.
5. To derive or to obtain (information, for example) from a source; or to deduce (a principle or doctrine); to construe (a meaning).
6. To derive (pleasure or comfort) from an experience.
7. In mathematics, to determine or to calculate (the root of a number).

1. The act of extracting or the condition of being extracted.
2. Something obtained by extracting; an extract.
3. The result of obtaining something from a source, usually by separating it out from other material: "There were a few snippets of information that I managed to extract from the conversation."
4. The act of copying or removing a passage from a text: "This scene is extracted from the author's memoirs."
5. The removal of a tooth or teeth.
6. In chemistry, the separation of a substance from a mixture by dissolving one or more of the components in a solvent.
7. The ethnic origin or the original nationality of someone's ancestors: "Her husband was of Spanish extraction."