Definition of Escaping

1. Verb. (present participle of escape) ¹

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Definition of Escaping

1. escape [v] - See also: escape

Lexicographical Neighbors of Escaping

escape training
escape valve
escape velocities
escape velocity
escape ventricular contraction
escape wheel
escaped
escapee
escapees
escapement
escapements
escaper
escapers
escapes
escapeth
escaping (current term)
escapism
escapisms
escapist
escapists
escapologies
escapologist
escapologists
escapology
escar
escarbuncle
escarbuncles
escargatoire
escargatoires
escargot

Literary usage of Escaping

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

1. The Works of Daniel Webster by Daniel Webster, Edward Everett (1860)
"... A BILL amendatory of " An Act respecting Fugitives from Justice and Persons escaping from the Service of their Masters," approved February 12, 1793. ..."

2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1901)
"... however, of escaping the flames of persecution, which were not attended with an equal degree of guilt: the first, indeed, was generally allowed to be ..."

3. The Life of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini (1920)
"... only the great central tower existed; so that he had not the same enormous difficulty that I met- with in escaping; moreover, he had been imprisoned ..."

4. The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index, and by Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1853)
"The whim of narrowly escaping by having been within a day of danger, with other matters above- mentioned, mixed with good sense, left me at a loss whether I ..."

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