Meaning of extricate

ex•tri•cate

Pronunciation: (ek'stri-kāt"), [key]

— -cat•ed, -cat•ing.

to free or release from entanglement; disengage: to extricate someone from a dangerous situation.
to liberate (gas) from combination, as in a chemical process.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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extricate (Thesaurus)

extricable extrinsic

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