1. To free, as from difficulties or perplexities; to disentangle; to disembarrass; as, to extricate a person from debt, peril, etc. We had now extricated ourselves from the various labyrinths and defiles. Eustance.
2. To cause to be emitted or evolved; as, to extricate heat or moisture.
Syn. — To disentangle; disembarrass; disengage; relieve; evolve; set free; liberate.
EXTRICATION
Ex`tri*ca"tion, n.
1. The act or process of extricating or disentangling; a freeing from perplexities; disentanglement.
2. The act of sending out or evolving.
EXTRINSIC
Ex*trin"sic, a. Etym: [L. extrinsecus; exter on the outside + secus
otherwise, beside; akin to E. second: cf. F. extrinsèque. See
Exterior, Second.]
1. Not contained in or belonging to a body; external; outward; unessential; — opposed to intrinsic. The extrinsic aids of education and of artificial culture. I. Taylor.
2. (Anat.)
Defn: Attached partly to an organ or limb and partly to some other partintrinsic.