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What does extricate mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word extricate? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive) To free, disengage, loosen, or untangle.
  2. (rare) To free from intricacies or perplexity
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Thanks in part to the condition of the track ambulance crews took two hours to extricate me and deliver me to hospital.
Only with the cunning of the fox can you extricate yourself from these grim precincts.
The question now is whether they will try to extricate themselves without too much loss of face or future.
The car was a wreck of twisted metal, but they could see the driver, still inside, trying to extricate himself from his situation.
The entire region plunged into deep chaos and a nation was caught up in a deep quag, that it is still finding itself difficult to extricate from.
Or maybe she was sucked into a maelstrom of organised crime, from which only he could extricate her.

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