transitive verb. To release from an entanglement or difficulty; disengage.

To disentangle; disengage; free: as, to extricate one from a perilous or embarrassing situation; to extricate one's self from debt.

To set loose or free; evolve; excrete.

Synonyms Disentangle, etc. (see disengage); relieve, deliver, set free.

In entomology, extruded: applied to the ovipositor when the valves and vagina are entirely without the body, whether in use or not, as in many Ichneumonidæ.

transitive verb. To free, as from difficulties or perplexities; to disentangle; to disembarrass

transitive verb. To cause to be emitted or evolved.

verb. To free, disengage, loosen, or untangle.

verb. To free from intricacies or perplexity

verb. release from entanglement of difficulty

"COOPER: But using the word extricate, does that mean that you think U.S. troops should be out?"

disengage  free  

avulse  break loose  break out  clear  cut loose  

extricated  extricates  extricating