Definition of Extricating

1. Verb. (present participle of extricate) ¹

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Definition of Extricating

1. extricate [v] - See also: extricate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Extricating

extremitys
extremization
extremized
extremogram
extremophile
extremophiles
extremophilic
extremotolerant
extremum
extremums
extricable
extricate
extricated
extricates
extricating (current term)
extrication
extrications
extrinsic
extrinsic allergic alveolitis
extrinsic asthma
extrinsic colour
extrinsic factor
extrinsic fraud
extrinsic incubation period
extrinsic motivation
extrinsic muscles
extrinsic pathway
extrinsic protein

Literary usage of Extricating

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Studies of a Biographer by Sir Leslie Stephen (1902)
"extricating himself from his difficulties by the methods familiar to the courtiers of the time. The most singular case was that of Sir Robert Drury. ..."

2. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides (1855)
"To what purpose this 1 If here you are met together to retail your suspicions of future events, or to talk of any thing but the proper means of extricating ..."

3. Personal Sketches of His Own Times by Jonah Barrington (1854)
"... Scene ust my Brother's Hunting-Lodge--Joe Kelley's used Peter Alley's React. fastened to the Wall—Operations practised in extricating Them. ..."

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