0 to remove something or set something free with difficulty:
1 to remove, release, or free someone or something from a difficult condition or situation:
On the contrary, he first tried to successfully eliminate all possible options, and later tried to extricate those that resisted elimination.
So absolutely do ' ' lines and boundaries ' ' blur, that it is difficult to extricate primary and secondary subject (or body) from the metaphor's focal term.
At the same time, they could not altogether extricate themselves from their culture.
Both ships were fast in the ice; 'those on board were alive, but in low spirits,' with little hope of being extricated.
This does not help a bit to extricate archaeology from wizened determinism.
A great many reconsidered their political position and tried to avoid or extricate themselves from a party preaching political violence.
Consequently, in a second attempt to extricate itself from the political backwaters, a new strategy was developed in the 1980s.
Others try in various ways to extricate themselves from the web.
