0 past simple and past participle of extricate
1 to remove something or set something free with difficulty:
Both ships were fast in the ice; 'those on board were alive, but in low spirits,' with little hope of being extricated.
This interpretation of imperialism was possible mainly because the development of capitalism was extricated from the imperium.
But these measures by no means extricated the workings of officeholding from its property-like foundations.
We are never free from the impact of the fringe and some of our most evocative archaeological interpretations cannot be extricated from that complex maze of associations.
So it is not clear why he thinks that the scientific findings he discusses pose a problem for religious experience, once they are extricated from the context of naturalism.
The vehicles were finally extricated the following afternoon, after much more damage had been done.
These people, including the lady herself who was extricated from her bath, had a "whale of a time", which made their summer.
We have extricated ourselves from it without disastrous loss.
