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escapee

escapee

23 4.5
A person who escaped from prison or another place where people are kept
  • noun
  • /ˌɛskəˈpi/
translation icon : fugitivo
  • The police are still searching for the escapees who broke out of the prison last week.
  • Holocaust escapees
  • Jewish escapees
  • number of escapees

So that's that's the whole story within a story of the German escapee from the POW camps that I met in Lebanon, MO.

Examples

  • Don't let any of the escapees into the house.

    The Ritual (2000)

  • The clerk folded the newspaper to display the escapee's picture.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • This man is a prison escapee.

    Impostor (2001)

  • If you climb the inside fence, you are considered an escapee.

    Love Child (1982)

  • Will leads the other two escapees along a road and onto the iron bridge.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • Congresswoman Jo . . . said she has something to ask you about the escapee case.

    Beast (2018)

  • We have been sent to search for the escapees from Kanada.

    The Escape from Auschwitz (2020)

  • Archer drives on, listening to KFWB. The radio reporter (V.O.) said the escapee is considered extremely dangerous.

    Fiction book (1997)

  • Authorities now believe the two escapees from the California Youth Authority, Angela Garcia and Crystal Van Meter, are responsible for the shooting deaths of those two INS agents outside of San Diego yesterday.

    Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby (2000)

  • When she sailed again, the three escapees were aboard—more rested and certainly much warmer.

    Fiction book (1998)

Synonyms

fugitive
vsescapee
213 6.6

A person who runs away and hides from the police or danger

is about someone who left confinement or prison rather than merely hiding
absconder
vsescapee
  • Formal
1 8.7

A person who runs away to avoid arrest or punishment

refers to someone who broke free from confinement rather than avoiding legal process
escaper
vsescapee
5.1

A person or animal that gets away from a place where they were kept

focuses on a human who broke free from custody often from prison

How Free

at large
66 6.2
fugitive
213 6.6
escapee
23 4.5
detainee
  • Literature
95 6.8
prisoner
∞ 1.1

Surface Forms

escapee singular
escapees plural

Morphology

escapee = escape (transparent) = escape + ee

Formed by the verb 'escape' + the productive agent/patient suffix '-ee'; learners can infer 'a person who escaped'.

Etymology

Escapee comes from escape ('to get away') plus the ending -ee, which you see in words like employee and refugee to name a person. So an escapee is 'a person who has escaped', often from prison or confinement.