The meaning of EXTRICATION is the action of extricating.

Specially trained firefighters perform vehicle extrications (= helping people out of damaged vehicles). Rescue workers are continuing to work in an extrication effort.

These verbs mean to free from something that entangles: extricated herself from an embarrassing situation; disengaged his attention from the television; sought to disentangle fact from fiction in the …

EXTRICATION definition: the act of freeing a trapped or entangled person or thing. See examples of extrication used in a sentence.

Extrication refers to the act of freeing someone or something from a constraint or difficult situation. In emergency services, it often involves removing a person from a vehicle after an accident or other …

Extrication is the act of freeing or removing someone or something from a difficult or entangled situation, constraint or danger. It can also refer to the act of disentangling or the state of being disentangled.

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The word extrication is derived from extricate, shown below. Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

extrication (countable and uncountable, plural extrications) The act or process of extricating or disentangling; a freeing from perplexities; disentanglement. (public safety, emergency medicine) …

Extrication definition: The act or process of extricating or disentangling; a freeing from perplexities; disentanglement.