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What does extrication mean?

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Noun
  1. The act or process of extricating or disentangling; a freeing from perplexities; disentanglement.
  2. (emergency medicine) Rescue of a trapped person in vehicle or machinery
  3. The act of sending out or evolving.
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When danger threatens, they move into small crevices and puff up their bodies to make their extrication difficult.
Survivors entangled in wreckage-expected action: special extrication equipment brought in.
It was a very awkward extrication and it was a miracle the driver was not crushed.
The extrication of truth from error is a vital part of the journey toward greater discernment.
With all their knowledge and wisdom, they can see no possible way of painless extrication from the debt predicament.
But don't mistake that for any kind of successful extrication, or negotiated bilateral relationship, or return to American priorities.

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