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Escapes
- noun -
- a means or way of escaping; "hard work was his escape from worry"; "they installed a second hatch as an escape"; "their escape route"
- a plant originally cultivated but now growing wild
- a valve in a container in which pressure can build up (as a steam boiler); it opens automatically when the pressure reaches a dangerous level
- an avoidance of danger or difficulty; "that was a narrow escape"
- 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"
- 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'
Etropus
- noun - a genus of Bothidae
Eupepsy
- - Soundness of the nutritive or digestive organs; good concoction or digestion; -- opposed to dyspepsia.
Euripus
- - A strait; a narrow tract of water, where the tide, or a current, flows and reflows with violence, as the ancient frith of this name between Eub
Europan
- noun - an artificial language proposed as an auxiliary European language
Europia
- noun - a bivalent and trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group
Europol
- noun - police organization for the European Union; aims to improve effectiveness and cooperation among European police forces
Example
- noun - a representative form or pattern; "I profited from his example"
- a task performed or problem solved in order to develop skill or understanding; "you must work the examples at the end of each chapter in the textbook"
- an item of information that is typical of a class or group; "this patient provides a typical example of the syndrome"; "there is an example on page 10"
- an occurrence of something; "it was a case of bad judgment"; "another instance occurred yesterday"; "but there is always the famous example of the Smiths"
- punishment intended as a warning to others; "they decided to make an example of him"
- something to be imitated; "an exemplar of success"; "a model of clarity"; "he is the very model of a modern major general"
Excepts
- verb - prevent from being included or considered or accepted; "The bad results were excluded from the report"; "Leave off the top piece"
- take exception to; "he demurred at my suggestion to work on Saturday"
Exempla
- unknown - Anecdotes used to support moral points,used in medieval sermons