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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
extricate /ˈɛkstrɪkeɪt/

▶verb free from a constraint or difficulty.

– derivatives
extricable adjective,
extrication noun.

– origin C17 (in the sense ‘unravel’): from L. extricat-, extricare ‘unravel’, from ex- ‘out’ + tricae ‘perplexities’.

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