The meaning of EXTRICATION is the action of extricating.

Specially trained firefighters perform vehicle extrications (= helping people out of damaged vehicles). Rescue workers are continuing to work in an extrication effort.

These verbs mean to free from something that entangles: extricated herself from an embarrassing situation; disengaged his attention from the television; sought to disentangle fact from fiction in the …

Extrication is the act of freeing or removing someone or something from a difficult or entangled situation, constraint or danger. It can also refer to the act of disentangling or the state of being disentangled.

Extrication definition: The act or process of extricating or disentangling; a freeing from perplexities; disentanglement.

EXTRICATION definition: the act of freeing a trapped or entangled person or thing. See examples of extrication used in a sentence.

The act or process of extricating or disentangling; a freeing from perplexities; disentanglement. Learn the meaning of Extrication with clear definitions and helpful usage examples.

Extrication is when you set someone or something free. If your dog gets tangled in your neighbor's hammock, she might require some extrication.

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