Definition of "extricates" [extricates]

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of extricate. (verb)

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• "Same-language subtitling extricates literacy from the tangles of school infrastructure and teacher availability."
• "With a Fulbright Fellowship in film, I set off to the West Indies to look at how an island extricates itself from a plantation economy after 300 years of growing sugar."
• "GGW's David Alpert offers only lukewarm support for the decision, writing that Sarles "isn't what WMATA needs in the long run ... but he could be a good source of stability as WMATA extricates itself from its immediate crises.""