Meaning & use
Escaping
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Getting free from confinement, danger, or an undesirable situation.
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The prisoners were caught while escaping through a tunnel.
Steam kept escaping from the cracked pipe.
A note on using this word
Present participle of 'escape,' from Old French 'eschaper,' meaning to slip away.
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