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reescape en · NOUN

Etymology

From re- + escape.

Meanings

  1. a second escape.
    • […] Lyon she heard the story of Hardy's escape, arrest and reescape. 2002, Patrick Marnham, Resistance and betrayal: the death and life of the greatest hero of the French Resistance, Random House Inc:
    • Tracer entering the blood from the upstream end of the tissue has a higher probability of reescape into the tissue than does tracer entering the blood from the downstream end of the tissue. 1977, Handbook of Physiology: The cardiovascular system. v. 1, The heart. v. 2, Vascular smooth muscle, v. 3, pt. 1-2. Peripheral circulation and organ blood flow. v. 4, pt. 1-2. Microcirculation, page 570:
    • and haled them all to the mission, where lands were allotted to them and where they were carefully guarded by the ecclesiastics — until opportunity came for reescape; and to this congregation Escalante added a few Seri prisoners taken on Tiburon, as noted above. 1898, W. J. McGee, John Napoleon Brinton Hewitt, The Seri Indians, page 70:

Forms

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reescapes Number=Plur lexicographic

reescape en · VERB

Etymology

From re- + escape.

Meanings

  1. to escape again.
    • The energy of the projectile determines how deep it can penetrate into a solid, make a large angle collision with a target atom and reescape from the solid again in order to yield information on the mass and the subsurface depth of the scattering target atom. 2008, Joseph A. Eichmeier, Manfred Thumm, Vacuum Electronics: Components and Devices, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 232:
    • But they did not go to Pondy not to reescape from the struggles. 1988, Ma. Po Civañāṉam, History of Freedom Movement in Tamil Nadu, page 170:
    • Accordingly, the pursuit detachments, within the compass of such a large scale pursuit action, have to launch a relentless pursuit of escaped prisoners of war who disregard a challenge while in flight or offer resistance or attempt to reescape after having been recaptured, 1949, Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : U.S. Zone), Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals Under Control Council Law No. 10, Nuremberg, October 1946-April, 1949: Case 11: U.S. v. von Weizsaecker (Ministries case), page 8

Forms

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reescaping Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
reescaped Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
reescaped Tense=Past lexicographic
reescapes Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic