escaping

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escaping

/ɪsˈkeɪpɪŋ/
/əsˈkeɪpɪŋ/
/ɛsˈkeɪpɪŋ/

Rhymes with -eɪpɪŋ

noun escapings

The act of one who escapes; an escape.
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.

verb

gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of escape

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: get away, get out, break loose, escapism, get off, elude, evasion, dodging, get by, miss, outflow, leakage, leak, flight, relief valve, safety valve

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@misc{escaping_2026,
  title = {escaping},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/escaping},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}