Escaping
/ɪsˈkeɪpɪŋ/ noun, verb
noun, verb ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The act of one who escapes; an escape.
- 2 That which escapes or leaks out; an emission.
"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."
Verb
- 1 present participle and gerund of escape form-of, gerund, participle, present
Example
More examples"I caught sight of a fly escaping from the room."