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escaping

nounverbcommon in dialogue

  • //ɪsˈkeɪpɪŋ//
  • //əsˈkeɪpɪŋ//
  • //ɛsˈkeɪpɪŋ//

The act of one who escapes; an escape.

noun

  1. 1

    The act of one who escapes; an escape.

  2. 2

    That which escapes or leaks out; an emission.

    The faint, yet growing escapings of gas were in her nostrils as she slumped into a chair and began painfully to scrawl on the paper.

    Loud rumblings in the bunkhouse that night awakened the punchers often, with many rude comments made about the gastronomical escapings of certain people.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of escapepresent participle and gerund of escape

Forms

plural
escapings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).