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US
/ˌɛkstɹəˈkeɪʃən/
]
[ UK /ɛkstɹɪkˈeɪʃən/ ]
[ UK /ɛkstɹɪkˈeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
- the act of releasing from a snarled or tangled condition
How To Use extrication In A Sentence
- This institute shall act as a repository for all modern extrication and medical relief techniques to ensure quicker rescue and provide prompt medical relief, comparable to international standards.
- It is at first perfect at the instant the kernel is going to send forth the acrospire, and form itself into the future blade; it is again discovered perfect when the ear is labouring at its extrication, and hastening the production of the yet unformed kernels; in this it appears, the medium of nature's chemistry, equally employed by her in her mutation of the kernel into the blade, and her formation thus of other kernels, by which she effects the completion of that circle to which the operations of the vegetable world are limited. The American Practical Brewer and Tanner
- He estimates that $40,000 in loose equipment will be needed for the truck, including hoses and hand tools such as extrication tools and breathing apparatuses. Greatfallstribune.com - SPORTS
- 'And her extrication is to be a certainty to me, that this has really happened?' The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete
- But she goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy … She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own … she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy, and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standard of freedom. What Would Wilson Do?
- “Here, ye auld doited deevil,” said Caleb, still exulting in his extrication from a dilemma which had seemed insurmountable; The Bride of Lammermoor
- The extrication of truth from error is a vital part of the journey toward greater discernment.
- And so the novel charts Polly’s slow, painful extrication from the suffocating coils of family happiness, or at least from the kind of picture-book happiness that she, and she alone, is expected to produce with unfailing perfection. Family Happiness « Tales from the Reading Room
- “Here, ye auld doited deevil,” said Caleb, still exulting in his extrication from a dilemma which had seemed insurmountable; The Bride of Lammermoor
- With all their knowledge and wisdom, they can see no possible way of painless extrication from the debt predicament.