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Definition of Escapee
1. Noun. Someone who escapes.
Definition of Escapee
1. Noun. Someone who has become free through escaping imprisonment. ¹
2. Noun. Someone who has escaped. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Escapee
1. one that has escaped [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Escapee
Literary usage of Escapee
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"... and passing over the top of a dividing plate, descends and escapee from the
bottom of the purifier by the pipe о back to the cylinder. ..."
2. A Digest of the International Law of the United States: Taken from Documents by Francis Wharton (1887)
"... "A prisoner of war who escapee may be shot, or otherwise, killed iu his flight;
but neither death nor any other punishment shall be inflicted upon him ..."
3. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"... that the ore travels in the reverse direction and is drawn to the centre of
the bed. Here it discharges on to the third bed ; and so on until it escapee ..."
4. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1887)
"Gerónimo escapee from his guard. Gen. Carceres elected President of Peru. 2.
Ex-Alderman Waite makes a confession in regard to the Broadway Railroad case. ..."
5. The Annals of the English Bible by Christopher Anderson (1845)
"... caught—escapee—Persecution abroad—Powerful remonstrance from Antwerp, by
Vaughan the English ambassador, ..."
6. Rodman the Boatsteerer and Other Stories by Louis Becke (1898)
"The escapee ONE hot, steaming morning, a young man, named Harry Monk, was riding
along a desolate stretch of seashore on the coast of North Queensland, ..."
7. A Law Dictionary Containing Definitions of the Terms and Phrases of American by Henry Campbell Black (1910)
"The common-law offense of one who, being lawfully in custody, escapee from the
place where he is confined, by the employment of force and violence. ..."
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