Meaning & use
Extricating
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Freeing someone or something from a difficult, entangled, or restrictive situation.
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Rescuers spent hours extricating the driver from the wrecked car.
She was slowly extricating herself from the failing business partnership.
A note on using this word
From Latin 'ex-' (out) plus 'tricae' (trifles, perplexities), the same root that gives us 'intricate'.
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