Usually means: Free from a difficult situation.
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  1. extricate: Merriam-Webster
  2. extricate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. extricate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. extricate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. extricate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Extricate, extricate: Wordnik
  7. extricate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. extricate: Wiktionary
  9. extricate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. extricate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. extricate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Extricate, extricate: Dictionary.com
  13. extricate: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. extricate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Extricate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Extricate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. extricate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. extricate: Rhymezone
  19. Extricate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. extricate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Extricate: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. extricate: FreeDictionary.org
  23. extricate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. extricate: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. extricate: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. extricate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. extricate: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. extricate: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. extricate: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. extricate: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See extricable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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verb:  (transitive) To free, disengage, loosen, or untangle.
verb:  (rare) To free from intricacies or perplexity.

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