EXTRICATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does extrication mean? 

• EXTRICATION (noun)
  The noun EXTRICATION has 1 sense:

1. the act of releasing from a snarled or tangled condition

  Familiarity information: EXTRICATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXTRICATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of releasing from a snarled or tangled condition

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

disentanglement; extrication; unsnarling; untangling

Hypernyms ("extrication" is a kind of...):

freeing; liberation; release (the act of liberating someone or something)

Derivation:

extricate (release from entanglement of difficulty)

 Context examples 

It does good to no woman to be flattered by her superior, who cannot possibly intend to marry her; and it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead, ignis-fatuus-like, into miry wilds whence there is no extrication.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

My friend Heep has not fixed the positive remuneration at too high a figure, but he has made a great deal, in the way of extrication from the pressure of pecuniary difficulties, contingent on the value of my services; and on the value of those services I pin my faith.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I followed with lagging step, and thoughts busily bent on discovering a means of extrication; but he himself looked so composed and so grave also, I became ashamed of feeling any confusion: the evil—if evil existent or prospective there was—seemed to lie with me only; his mind was unconscious and quiet.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)