'Extrication' definitions:
Definition of 'extrication'
From: WordNet
noun
The act of releasing from a snarled or tangled condition [syn: unsnarling, untangling, disentanglement, extrication]
Definition of 'Extrication'
From: GCIDE
- Extrication \Ex`tri*ca"tion\, n.
- 1. The act or process of extricating or disentangling; a freeing from perplexities; disentanglement. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The act of sending out or evolving. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'extrication'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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 out