Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One that has escaped, especially an escaped prisoner. See Usage Note at -ee1.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An escaped person: used particularly with reference to convicts who have escaped from penal settlements, or have escaped and been recaptured.
Wiktionary
- n. Someone who has become free through escaping imprisonment.
- n. Someone who has escaped.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone who escapes
Examples
“I suppose it's only fitting then, that the lone escapee from the asylum -- Chief Bromden -- is the one who in the larger sense had been oppressed the longest and suffered the deepest of all the inmates and who, having observed all intelligently, finally acted with the decisiveness and clarity that eluded the misguided fury of Cheswick's thwarted rebellion.”
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“Um, that was not a resident … it was an escapee from the mental ward.”
“An escapee is marooned on a formerly inhabited island.”
“Area residents theorized it could be an Australian dingo, an escapee from the nearby North Carolina Zoo or even some new species.”
“It's a dark and surprising mystery of sorts, in which the greatest puzzle is who, among several plausible candidates, is the true escapee from a nearby mental hospital.”
“The dark thriller focuses on the mysterious identity of an escapee from a mental hospital.”
“This man is actually an escapee from the planet Tarpoint.”
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“He is an escapee from a prison in Venezuela, where he was incarcerated for blowing up an Air Cubana passenger plane in 1976, killing 73.”
“Keith Reinhard's second-in-command at BDA, Cari Eggspuehler, is an escapee from the wreckage of Beers's efforts, and she argues that the fault lay not with her former boss but with the government's "rigid and bureaucratic" institutional habits and its detachment from overseas realities.”
“This happened on one raid in 1967 when a South Vietnamese escapee from a Viet Cong POW camp reported the location of two camps containing American prisoners.”
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Russian Doll Words
A Russian Doll word is a word that, when you remove the first and last letters, is either the empty string, or a Russian Doll word. These are all of the 6 or more letter Russian Doll words found in...
waspiness, upraisers, strainers, sporangia, raspiness, prelatess, methanals, gaspiness, washings, uprisers, upraises, upraiser and 2373 more...
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expediency, obediency, eminency, enemy, arrestee, escapee, ogee, beady, essay, effigy, elegy, tennessee and 59 more...
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shaphan, shephanim, eaten, escapee, arrestee, newsboy, batboy, airman, garbageman, anchorman, guardsman, lineman and 14 more...
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apiarian, beadier, cesium, devious, eosinophilous, effeminacy, gillotti, iberian, jacuzzi, caseous, elementarily, eminency and 29 more...
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