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Escapable

Escapable \Es*cap"a*ble\, a. Avoidable.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
escapable

1864, from escape (v.) + -able.

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escapable

a. 1 Able to be escaped or run from 2 Not needed or necessary alt. 1 Able to be escaped or run from 2 Not needed or necessary

Usage examples of "escapable".

There was a distance to it, though -- it was the sort of melancholy that can be taken down from the shelf and bitterly savored during a leisure hour, and not any longer the plain pain that is no more escapable than a toothache.

The land and the water are one, and it is the will of the spirit that determines how man will use the land and the water - again without regard for such abstractions as useless freedom or escapable confinement.