Both Uses
extricate
in
Hollow City
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- Olive, Claire, and Miss Peregrine were waiting there for us, and as we extricated ourselves from the net and stumbled away from the cliff's edge, Olive cheered, Miss Peregrine screeched and beat her good wing, and Claire raised her head from where she'd been lying on the ground and gave a weak smile.†
p. 72.5extricated = freed or removed from constraint or difficulty
- Coming to earth in a knotted pile, we extricated ourselves from its tangles in what could've been a lost Three Stooges bit; several times I thought I was free, only to try standing and fall flat on my face again with a cartoonish whump!†
p. 118.1 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(extricate) free or remove from constraint or difficulty
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)