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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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Soldiers had local residents extricate the bodies and then flattened the house with bulldozers, witnesses said.
You need to extricate yourself from management and turn it over to people who are good at it.
Or maybe she was sucked into a maelstrom of organised crime, from which only he could extricate her.
He would have to be a very smooth talker to extricate himself from this tangle.
Suppose that the government of a country in the euro area gets into fiscal trouble, from which it cannot extricate itself.
Only with the cunning of the fox can you extricate yourself from these grim precincts.

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