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Escambio
- - A license formerly required for the making over a bill of exchange to another over sea.
Escapade
- noun - a wild and exciting undertaking (not necessarily lawful)
- any carefree episode
Escapees
- noun - someone who escapes
Escaping
- verb -
- be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by; "What you are seeing in him eludes me"
- escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action; "She gets away with murder!"; "I couldn't get out from under these responsibilities"
- fail to experience; "Fortunately, I missed the hurricane"
- flee; take to one's heels; cut and run; "If you see this man, run!"; "The burglars escaped before the police showed up"
- issue or leak, as from a small opening; "Gas escaped into the bedroom"
- remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion; "We escaped to our summer house for a few days"; "The president of the company never manages to get away during the summer"
Escapism
- noun - an inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy; "romantic novels were her escape from the stress of daily life"; "his alcohol problem was a form of escapism"
Escapist
- noun - a person who escapes into a world of fantasy
Escargot
- noun - edible terrestrial snail usually served in the shell with a sauce of melted butter and garlic
Escarole
- noun - variety of endive having leaves with irregular frilled edges
Eschalot
- noun - type of onion plant producing small clustered mild-flavored bulbs used as seasoning
Eschaton
- noun - (New Testament) day at the end of time following Armageddon when God will decree the fates of all individual humans according to the good and evil of their earthly lives