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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
escapee
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Maybe, if she was a recent escapee, she had never learned how to fish well.
▪ The sixth escapee, Felix Carbonell, never made it to the car and was caught outside the prison.
▪ There were one or two escapees from within his group, however.
▪ There, escapees from the gritty streets of Brooklyn come to relax amid the pines and mosquitos.
▪ These escapees would grow all the faster because their competitors had been pruned.
▪ Those included hitting Carbonell, the first escapee to be caught.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
escapee

"escaped prisoner or convict," 1865, American English, from escape (v.) + -ee.

Wiktionary
escapee

n. 1 Someone who has become free through escape imprisonment. 2 Someone who has escaped. 3 (cx botany English) A plant that has escaped from cultivation.

WordNet
escapee

n. someone who escapes

Wikipedia
Escapee (film)

Escapee is a 2011 mystery thriller film written and directed by Campion Murphy. The film has an April 16, 2013 DVD/Blu-ray Disc release in the United States through Starz / Anchor Bay.

Usage examples of "escapee".

But I pressed the Escapee for news of human survivors and -- bless me!

The Escapee, however, faced with this insurrection of militant pessimism, turned pale and wan and murmured to himself comforting phrases of Kropotkin, etc.

But the Escapee remains most troubled in his mind over the occurrence arid tries to engage me in debate on its significance.

But, on the other side of the river, there is a little house of that most unsuitable, frilled and goffered kind the Russians elect to build out here and the Escapee guesses, by its loneliness, it is the home of an exile such as he was, who will give us a welcome.

When we found the larder so bare, there fell out an ugly disagreement between the Colonel and the Escapee over Sybil, who looked like a good dinner to the one but, for the other, lay under the protection of the taboo against the slaughter of beasts whom we love.

By the time the fish was cooked and eaten, the Escapee agreed to conduct the Colonel as far as the railhead at R.

But the Colonel chuckled when he looked at the fresh-faced, bright-eyed Escapee and thought: if the boy proved a useful recruit to the great project of the Ludic Game, he would give him the name, Bamboozlem, to use in America.

He asked Sybil as to how he might best employ the Escapee when they returned to Civilisation.

The Colonel and the Escapee, snug in a smoking compartment on the way to Khabarovsk, caught the echoes and found abashed smiles creeping across their faces.

Music World and Washington Square Park, crept in his mind, furtive like an escapee returning nightly for meals in his old cell.

Anyhow, the life of an escapee and permanent fugitive, visible or not, held no allure.

Anybody who warned the escapees in any way would suffer as much as they did, and they all knew it.

The six escapees darted for what they thought was a hidden booster plate at the base of the wall, five men and one woman piling onto the makeshift lifter.

They would footprint the likely routes of the escapees with one of their looksats, and probably pick up the bastards within a pass or two.

He had some ideas as to how to do that, but they would have to wait until the escapees were located.