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INEXTRICABLY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does inextricably mean?
• INEXTRICABLY (adverb)
The adverb INEXTRICABLY has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: INEXTRICABLY used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
In an inextricable manner
Context example:
motives inspired by Mammon were often inextricably blended with things pertaining to Caesar and to God
Pertainym:
inextricable (not permitting extrication; incapable of being disentangled or untied)
Context examples
Because, he said, I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you—especially when you are near me, as now: it is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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