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INEXTRICABLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inextricably mean? 

INEXTRICABLY (adverb)
  The adverb INEXTRICABLY has 1 sense:

1. in an inextricable mannerplay

  Familiarity information: INEXTRICABLY used as an adverb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


INEXTRICABLY (adverb)


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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