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extrication
CIDE DICTIONARY
extrication, n.
- The act or process of extricating or disentangling; a freeing from perplexities; disentanglement. [1913 Webster]
- The act of sending out or evolving. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
extrication
avulsion, break, breaking out, breakout, clearing, cutting out, deliverance, delivery, deracination, disburdening, disembarrassment, disembroilment, disencumbrance, disengagement, disentanglement, disinvolvement, dislodgment, drawing, drawing out, dredging, drilling, emergence, enucleation, eradication, escape, escapism, evasion, evolvement, evulsion, excavation, excision, expression, exsection, extirpation, extraction, flight, freeing, getaway, issuance, issue, jailbreak, leak, leakage, liberation, lifesaving, mining, outlet, pressing out, prisonbreak, pulling, quarrying, ransom, recovery, redemption, release, releasing, removal, rescue, retrieval, riddance, ripping out, salvage, salvation, saving, setting-free, squeezing out, uncluttering, unhampering, unknotting, unraveling, unrooting, unscrambling, unsnarling, untangling, uprooting, vent, withdrawal, wresting outROGET THESAURUS
extrication
Deliverance
N deliverance, extrication, rescue, reprieve, reprieval, respite, liberation, emancipation, redemption, salvation, riddance, gaol delivery, redeemableness, saved, extricable, redeemable, rescuable, Int, to the rescue!.Liberation
N liberation, disengagement, release, enlargement, emancipation, disenthrallment, disenthralment, affranchisement, enfranchisement, manumission, discharge, dismissal, deliverance, redemption, extrication, acquittance, absolution, acquittal, escape, liberated, out of harness, Int, unhand me!, let me go!.Extraction
N extraction, extracting, removal, elimination, extrication, eradication, evolution, evulsion, avulsion, wrench, expression, squeezing, extirpation, extermination, ejection, export, extractor, corkscrew, forceps, pliers, extracted.For further exploring for "extrication" in Webster Dictionary Online