escaping
English
Pronunciation
Verb
escaping
Noun
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.
- 1947, Joseph Dever, No Lasting Home (page 406)