escaping
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English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]escaping
- present participle and gerund of escape
Noun
[edit]escaping (plural escapings)
- The act of one who escapes; an escape.
- That which escapes or leaks out; an emission.
- 1947, Joseph Dever, No Lasting Home, page 406:
- The faint, yet growing escapings of gas were in her nostrils as she slumped into a chair and began painfully to scrawl on the paper.
- 2006, William W. Johnstone, Gunsight Crossing:
- Loud rumblings in the bunkhouse that night awakened the punchers often, with many rude comments made about the gastronomical escapings of certain people.