0 present participle of extricate --
1 to remove something or set something free with difficulty: --
He succeeded in partially extricating the gunner so that his head was out of water, and held him in this position until the speedboat arrived.
It is the only chance of extricating ourselves from the poll tax mire and it offers the chance of doing so without doing further and terrible damage.
Embodied in these three suggestions are the kind of things which are placing secondary education reorganisation in a straitjacket from which local authorities are finding difficulty in extricating themselves.
The difficult task for responsible political leaders is to make plans for the future and especially to devise means of extricating ourselves from the immediate crisis.
Our entire problem really concerns how to manage the crisis and reduce our deficits and debt, and also how to prepare for extricating ourselves from the crisis.
Today we are looking forward to our programme extricating a crucial public service from great difficulty and putting it on a firm road.
I hope that the method of extricating our forces may provide some way in which we can find unity.
However, there is a tremendous area between launching an investment and extricating one's money from an investment that has failed, if one can.
