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   Word of the Day for Sunday March 17, 2002:

   extricate \EK-struh-kayt\, transitive verb:
   To  free  or release from a difficulty or entanglement; to get
   free; to disengage.

     Sean  introduced  himself and then extricated his hand from
     Ronan's persistent grasp in order to show him the photo.
     --Naeem Murr, [1]The Boy

     Ultimately  they  extricated  Ned  by  lifting up the whole
     table-and-chair  structure,  thus  allowing him to fall out
     onto the floor.
     --Joan  L.  Richards,  [2]Angles of Reflection: Logic and a
     Mother's Love

     I knelt down, either out of weakness or out of gratitude to
     a god who had extricated me from yet another predicament.
     --Christa Wolf, Medea: A Modern Retelling
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   Extricate  comes  from  Latin  extricare,  "to disentangle, to
   extricate,"  from  ex-, "out" + tricae, "trifles, impediments,
   perplexities."

References

   1. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0395957907/ref%3Dnosim/lexico
   2. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0716738317/ref%3Dnosim/lexico


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