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extricate
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    She extricated herself from his embrace and said "goodnight."
    extricated = freed
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    ...I became convinced he was trying to figure out a way not to hook up with me, that I never should have suggested the idea in the first place, that it was unladylike and therefore had disgusted Augustus Waters, who was standing there looking at me unblinking, trying to think of a way to extricate himself from the situation politely.  (source)
    extricate = remove
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    "Come on," I say in exasperation, extricating myself from his grasp but not before he gets in another kiss.  (source)
    extricating = freeing
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    Ron, who had fought his way through to Harry's side, doubled up with laughter as they watched Malfoy fighting to extricate himself from the robe, Goyle's head still stuck inside it.  (source)
    extricate = free or remove from constraint or difficulty
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    Every time, though, he extricated himself and went back, perhaps to a different spot, to get a different angle on the game.  (source)
    extricated = released from entanglement or difficulty
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    But after I told him I'd only done okay at the audition, I had the feeling that I was wading into quicksand, and that if I took one more step, there'd be no extricating myself and I'd sink until I suffocated.  (source)
    extricating = freeing or removing from constraint or difficulty
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    "And I want that homing contraption out of Mr. McDaniels," added the Agent. ... "Extrication is a bit unpleasant but harmless."  (source)
    Extrication = removal
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    (Pozzo extricates himself with cries of pain and crawls away.)  (source)
    extricates = frees from constraint or difficulty
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    Holly managed to extricate her fingers a nanosecond before they snapped like brittle spaghetti.  (source)
    extricate = free
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    This made the taxiways a pageant of lurching planes, all of which, sooner or later, ended up veering into places nowhere near where their pilots intended them to go, and from which they often had to be extricated with shovels.  (source)
    extricated = removed from difficulty
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    His mother dressed him in garnet velvet, and when he was able he followed her about at a distance of several yards, extricating himself gravely from the ladies who tried to detain him in conversation.  (source)
    extricating = freeing or removing from constraint or difficulty
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    I followed with lagging step, and thoughts busily bent on discovering a means of extrication; but he himself looked so composed and so grave also, I became ashamed of feeling any confusion: the evil — if evil existent or prospective there was — seemed to lie with me only; his mind was unconscious and quiet.†  (source)
    extrication = the act of freeing or removing from constraint or difficulty
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    He extricates himself reluctantly.†  (source)
    extricates = frees or removes from constraint or difficulty
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