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Definition of Escaped
1. Adjective. Having escaped, especially from confinement. "Criminals on the loose in the neighborhood"
Definition of Escaped
1. Verb. (past of escape) ¹
2. Adjective. That or who has escaped, especially from prison or another place of confinement. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Escaped
1. escape [v] - See also: escape
Lexicographical Neighbors of Escaped
Literary usage of Escaped
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"I well may think that every Trojan brave, Slain by my hand, from out the misty
West May rise in resurrection to the war ; As this man hath, who once escaped ..."
2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1831)
"Their mutual inquiries produced the amazing discovery, that two centuries were
almost elapsed since Jamblichus, and his mends, had escaped from the rage of ..."
3. The woman in white by Wilkie Collins (1871)
"What right had I to decide, in my poor mortal ignorance of the future, that this
man, too, must escape with impunity, because he escaped me ? ..."
4. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, Henry Dale, Thomas Arnold (1873)
"... hundred of them had escaped), having taken some, forts that were. on tho
mainland, were mosten« of (ln-ir own territory on tho opposite coast, ..."
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