To free, as from difficulties or perplexities; to disentangle; to disembarrass; as, to extricate a person from debt, peril, etc
If you extricate someone or something from a place where they are trapped or caught, you succeed in freeing them. He endeavoured to extricate the car, digging with his hands in the blazing sunshine. = free
release from entanglement of difficulty; "I cannot extricate myself from this task
Latin, ex, out of, and tricæ, fetters "Tricæ" are the hairs, etc , tied round the feet of birds to prevent their wandering To extricate is to "get out of these tricæ or meshes "
If you extricate yourself or another person from a difficult or serious situation, you free yourself or the other person from it. It represents a last ditch attempt by the country to extricate itself from its economic crisis She tugged on Hart's arm to extricate him from the circle of men with whom he'd been talking. = free