Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which escapes. 2 Ki. ix. 15, margin.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who escapes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Person whoescapes .
Etymologies
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Examples
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When the whole house is surrounded, crews placed all around it, the guy who runs out of the house is considered an 'escaper' and must be stopped.
Printing: "Breaking the Silence:" Testimonies of Israeli Soldiers 2009
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When the whole house is surrounded, crews placed all around it, the guy who runs out of the house is considered an 'escaper' and must be stopped.
"Breaking the Silence:" Testimonies of Israeli Soldiers 2009
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Each escaper was given the name of the person they should follow in the tunnel.
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According to Changchien, Fishburne's character Noland has survived for ten years on the alien planet by living in a cave, demonstrating equal proficiency as a fighter and as an escaper.
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No sooner did a hole appear than a phaser beam cut through the air and knocked the would-be escaper backward over the shoulders of hunched-over Bader.
A Time to Hate Robert Greenberger 2004
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"Now I'll add something to your role as an escaper-from-dung-shirts."
Garden of Beasts Deaver, Jeffery 2004
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Jan de Wet, another escaper, was found guilty of participating in the Germiston bombing.
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An escaper was shot dead and 16 re-arrested soon after 104 prisoners brokeufeading riots on Friday.
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Correctional Services spokesman Lt Rudi Potgieter said a third escaper had reported to the prison on Tuesday morning.
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Critics have long been able to seem high and weighty by looking down on such Gothic things as the tempter, the captor, the escaper, or the second self in these and other capacities, and yet such things have been the essential concerns of much romantic writing.
Ladies in Distress Miller, Karl 1978
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