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Antonyms for extrication
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : ek-stri-keyt |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈɛk strɪˌkeɪt |
- addition
- aggravation
- annoyance
- arrival
- capture
- check
- coming
- continuation
- damage
- danger
- depression
- destruction
- directness
- discontent
- discouragement
- dissatisfaction
- endangerment
- entrance
- failure
- gloom
- harm
- hindrance
- hold
- hurt
- injury
- insertion
- introduction
- irritation
- loss
- maintenance
- meeting
- misery
- obstruction
- pain
- peril
- sadness
- stay
- staying
- stop
- unhappiness
- waste
Definition of extrication
Origin :- 1640s, noun of action of extricate.
- As in relief : noun remedy, aid; relaxation
- As in rescue : noun saving from danger
- As in salvation : noun rescue, saving
- As in freeing : noun emancipation
- As in palliation : noun relief
- As in deliverance : noun liberation
- As in escape : noun breaking away; getaway
- As in extraction : noun removal from whole; distillation
- What opening for extrication, unless, indeed, Emilia should die?
- Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
- They were therefore in a dilemma, from which there was no middle course of extrication.
- Extract from : « Mary Wollstonecraft » by Elizabeth Robins Pennell
- Here was an impasse from which obviously there was but one method of extrication.
- Extract from : « Lord Milner's Work in South Africa » by W. Basil Worsfold
- This is one of the simplest of these methods of extrication.
- Extract from : « The Life of an Insect » by Anonymous
- They seemed to be in a maze, without perceiving the right way of extrication.
- Extract from : « The Allen House » by T. S. Arthur
- My whole future depended upon my extrication from that impasse.
- Extract from : « The Count's Chauffeur » by William Le Queux
- Many of those who were saved died in a few hours after their extrication.
- Extract from : « Old and New London » by Walter Thornbury
- He was resolved to make an effort of some kind for the extrication of his sister.
- Extract from : « Checkmate » by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
- Indeed, that seems in some places the only way to extrication from the labyrinth.
- Extract from : « A Month in Yorkshire » by Walter White
- Could there be, even for him, some mode of extrication from his misery?
- Extract from : « Can You Forgive Her? » by Anthony Trollope
Synonyms for extrication
- abatement
- abdication
- abstraction
- acquittal
- allayment
- alleviation
- amelioration
- appeasement
- assistance
- assuagement
- avoidance
- AWOL
- balm
- beat
- bolt
- break
- breakout
- breather
- bypassing
- cheer
- circumvention
- clearing
- comfort
- comforting
- conservancy
- conservation
- consolation
- contentment
- cure
- decampment
- deliverance
- delivery
- departure
- derivation
- desertion
- disappearance
- discharging
- disembarrassment
- disentanglement
- disentangling
- diversion
- dodging
- drawing
- ducking
- ease
- easement
- elicitation
- elopement
- elusion
- elusiveness
- emancipation
- eradication
- escape
- eschewal
- evasion
- evasiveness
- evocation
- evulsion
- exemption
- exploit
- expression
- extirpation
- extrication
- fadeout
- feat
- fix
- flight
- freedom
- freeing
- granting freedom
- hand
- happiness
- hegira
- help
- heroics
- heroism
- keeping
- lam
- leave
- letup
- liberation
- lifeline
- lift
- lightening
- load off one's mind
- loosening
- loosing
- maintenance
- manumission
- mitigation
- mollification
- out
- outbreak
- palliative
- pardon
- pardoning
- performance
- powder
- preserval
- preservation
- pulling
- quick fix
- ransom
- reclaiming
- reclamation
- recovering
- recovery
- redemption
- refreshment
- release
- releasing
- relief
- remission
- reprieve
- rescue
- rescuing
- respite
- rest
- restfulness
- restoration
- retreat
- runaround
- safekeeping
- salvage
- salvation
- satisfaction
- saving
- separation
- setting free
- shunning
- sidestepping
- slip
- softening
- solace
- spring
- succor
- support
- sustenance
- sustentation
- taking out
- unbinding
- unchaining
- unfettering
- unlocking
- untying
- uprooting
- withdrawal
- wrenching
- wresting
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