Definition of "extrication" [ex•tri•ca•tion]

• The act or process of extricating or disentangling; a freeing from perplexities; disentanglement. (noun)
• Rescue of a trapped person in vehicle or machinery (noun)
• The act of sending out or evolving. (noun)

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• "The rest were concerned with flooded basements, stuck elevators, rescue calls, and "extrication" - i.e., getting cats out of trees."
• "And so the novel charts Polly’s slow, painful extrication from the suffocating coils of family happiness, or at least from the kind of picture-book happiness that she, and she alone, is expected to produce with unfailing perfection."
• "'And her extrication is to be a certainty to me, that this has really happened?'"