extricate
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strɪˌkeɪt verb (used with object), ex·tri·cat·ed, ex·tri·cat·ing.
1.
to free or release from entanglement; disengage: to extricate someone from a dangerous situation.
2.
to liberate (gas) from combination, as in a chemical process.
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| —vb | |
| to remove or free from complication, hindrance, or difficulty; disentangle | |
| [C17: from Latin extrīcāre to disentangle, from | |
| 'extricable | |
| —adj | |
| extri'cation | |
| —n | |
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extricate
1610s, from L. extricatus, pp. of extricare "disentangle," from ex- "out of" + tricæ (pl.) "perplexities, hindrances," of unknown origin. Related: Extricable; extricated; extricating; extrication.
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Example sentences
Doubly so when it is impossible to extricate oneself from the bind of that definition, even when it clearly does not apply.
Locate, extricate and provide for the immediate medical treatment of victims trapped in collapsed structures.
When this was not possible, an engineer officer would post a group near the trouble spot to extricate wagons and artillery pieces.
Yet the heroine finds it difficult to extricate herself from her mother's tantalizing sphere of influence.
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