(v. t.) To free, as from difficulties or perplexities; to disentangle; to disembarrass; as, to extricate a person from debt, peril, etc.
(v. t.) To cause to be emitted or evolved; as, to extricate heat or moisture.
Example Sentences:
(1) A reason for Stepanenko’s extrication was also mooted – he and his family visited Crimea, annexed by Russia, in 2015 and did not hide the fact, protesting that it is simply part of Ukraine.
(2) 8.01am GMT David Smith (@SmithInAfrica) Roux: "You desperately now try to extricate your wife's version from this version."
(3) As shown in an eponymous fly-on-the-wall documentary released earlier this year, Weiner refused to bow out of the race despite the anguish of his staff and Abedin, who often looked on in silence as her husband attempted to extricate himself from the scandal.
(4) In a wide-ranging speech on Monday, Labour’s Brexit spokesman Keir Starmer will warn that the Brexit process is in danger of being hijacked by Tory hardliners who sense a “once in a generation chance” for Britain to extricate itself from employment rights, environmental protections and investment in public services.
(5) After years of on-and-off e-dating, in which I've met 150-200 women, fallen in love with one and invented extravagant excuses to extricate myself from awkward encounters with countless others, you might think I'd be tired of it all.
(6) President Obama announced on Friday that in the "days ahead" he will decide on a package of military and diplomatic options to halt the rapid advance of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis) , as the jihadist army's march from Syria through Sunni Iraq has upended Obama's achievement of extricating the US military from the Iraq conflict.
(7) A Both the United States and the UK have consistently ruled this out, and it seems highly unlikely at present that either would risk a return to a high-casualty military quagmire from which they have only just extricated themselves.
(8) He extricated himself from the mob and went over to Goffin and the whole of the Belgium camp, shaking hands with each and every one of them, before allowing the British celebrations to continue.
(9) Although these injuries continue to prove very mutilating, maximum restoration of the injured hand can be accomplished by careful extrication, followed by preservation and reconstruction of all viable tissues.
(10) Obama went out of his way to stress that the new offensive would not represent the unravelling of his most prized foreign policy achievement, the extrication of his country from costly and bloody wars abroad, reiterating his administration's pledge that it would not send ground troops to either Iraq or Syria, where Isis controls a large swath of territory.
(11) Can you suddenly extricate yourself from your history, and start from scratch?
(12) Read more Gove’s allies said he had had growing doubts about Johnson’s ability to build a future government in recent days, and over how he would manage the complex negotiations that will be required to extricate Britain from the EU .
(13) Brunhilda is a black woman who he loved so much that even when he is extricated from this terrible situation he still goes further than hell to save her.
(14) "Yellowcake" now refers to a type of dessert, not uranium; a "roadmap" is not a plan to extricate your nation from war, but a thing your smartphone has that tells you how exactly to get to Starbucks.
(15) John Denham, the shadow business secretary, says the government's political hang-ups about state involvement in the economy – which he says are shared by Cable, as well as the chancellor – prevent the formation of a coherent policy for extricating Britain from the worst slump in a generation.
(16) British government officials have told ministers it could take a decade to extricate the UK from EU law, with the domestic legislative agenda likely to be dominated by unwinding EU membership for years to come.
(17) Last month, in a federal judge in Oregon ruled that the inability of individuals to extricate themselves from the list is a due-process violation, rejecting the government's contention that there is no constitutional right to travel.
(18) Fifa's general secretary, Jérôme Valcke, last week sought to extricate himself from a row with the Brazilian government, claiming he was misquoted over comments that the country needed a "kick in the ass" to meet its commitments.
(19) BP is preparing to announce a $27bn (£17bn) deal that would allow the oil company to extricate itself from a troubled joint venture in Russia , but force it to forge closer ties with the Kremlin.
(20) It was a big fight, one of the largest we’ve seen recently.” Kurdish fighters say US special forces have been fighting Isis for months Read more Warren said that the mission of QRF force Keating was a part of was not to reinforce the US fighting positions, but to extricate the Americans from the fight.
Untangle
Definition:
(v. t.) To loose from tangles or intricacy; to disentangle; to resolve; as, to untangle thread.
Example Sentences:
(1) Loose ends in efforts to untangle the Gordian knot of Syria | Letters Read more “What is important is Russia has to not be engaged in any activities against anybody but [Isis],” secretary of state John Kerry said.
(2) Loose ends in efforts to untangle the Gordian knot of Syria | Letters Read more Moscow, however, angrily dismissed the reports as false, the TASS news agency reported.
(3) Andrew Romano, Newsweek How would these eloquent know-it-alls – these brainiacs bent on "speaking truth to stupid" – untangle the knotty threads of information that make actual breaking news so difficult to sort out?
(4) The Apple-Samsung case has so far lasted for four weeks, and the jurors are expected to deliberate for another week as they try to untangle the complex forms – in which they have to decide, among other things, whether any of 21 different Samsung tablets and smartphones infringed any of 10 different patents on functionality – such as the "rubber band" effect when trying to scroll past the top of a list – and whether the "trade dress" of Apple's products is sufficiently "famous" to merit protection.
(5) Such agreement to begin reining in respective proxies is necessary in the process of untangling the mess of foreign interests that has been tearing Syria apart for the last five years.
(6) Dawn Foster Contributing editor, Guardian housing network Central government: untangling British and European laws could cause years of instability Amid the uncertainty around what a UK vote to leave the EU could mean for central government, one thing is clear.
(7) The objective of the current study was to untangle the effects of a number of variables likely to affect autonomic activation during human speech.
(8) In the abscence of a priori knowledge of the functional form, it is difficult to untangle true effects from spurious ones.
(9) A world where cycling could become so safe it was actually relaxing again, and traffic jams untangled themselves, and pollution didn’t choke cities to death after all.
(10) "Polygraph was an act of mourning, a way to untangle very, very dark feelings about that event," Lepage says.
(11) Bond covertly enlists Moneypenny ( Naomie Harris ) and Q ( Ben Whishaw ) to help him seek out Madeleine Swann (Léa Seydoux), the daughter of his old nemesis Mr White (Jesper Christensen), who may hold the clue to untangling the web of SPECTRE.
(12) Beyond SW1, it is hoped that businesses will volunteer to untangle themselves from the old boy net.
(13) I was faced with a labyrinth of political, religious and cultural elements that from the outside seemed impossible to understand much less untangle.
(14) Here’s a three-point plan to untangle it | Andrew Allen Read more While Southern’s plans for onboard supervisors have been approved by the independent rail safety body, the RMT general secretary, Mick Cash, told the transport select committee that there were genuine safety concerns over making drivers responsible for closing the doors on crowded platforms, and that there were insufficient guarantees over future staffing of trains.
(15) Seabirds are one of most threatened groups of birds in the world, but untangling the effects of multiple threats to seabirds is a challenge, one which underlines the importance of ongoing research such as this which helps determine vulnerability of different species.” The findings are published in the journal Science Advances.
(16) I had plenty of fashion cupboard experience, but to them I was new so my first task was to untangle a massive pile of coat hangers.
(17) However, while clinical observations of human behavior are particularly relevant, it is difficult to untangle confounding factors and thus determine unequivocal causal relationships.
(18) The move is part of President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski’s bid to “untangle” stalled investments from red tape.
(19) The weather had cleared and Machado was back on the roof, untangling wire, when Bumba’s summit suddenly cratered out.
(20) Ellis is very well-informed about the complexities of disability policy, after spending thousands of hours untangling refused benefit applications, and attending hundreds of tribunals with clients, fighting for decisions not to award disability benefit to be overturned.