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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
Escheats
- noun - a reversion to the state (as the ultimate owner of property) in the absence of legal heirs
- the property that reverts to the state