0 present participle of extricate
1 to remove something or set something free with difficulty:
Resolving this question requires extricating the aspectual effects of verbal -s from those of the simple present.
All these were imposed upon us, and only with the greatest difficulty are we extricating ourselves from some of them.
Precipitate intervention, in our view—knowing the difficulties of extricating oneself—would have considerable and long-term resource implications.
Perhaps we shall know whether there is any way of extricating them from the jam.
Sending in an army is one thing, but extricating it is another—one hundred times more difficult.
Extricating oneself from agreements into which one has entered is always awkward.
We seem to have cut off any opportunity of extricating ourselves from that position.
However, there is a tremendous area between launching an investment and extricating one's money from an investment that has failed, if one can.
