escaping

Webster's Dictionary (1913)

“escaping” is listed under Escape.

Origin: OE. escapen, eschapen, OF. escaper, eschaper, F. echapper, fr. LL. ex cappa out of one's cape or cloak; hence, to slip out of one's cape and escape. See 3d Cape, and cf. Scape, verb

1. To flee from and avoid; to be saved or exempt from; to shun; to obtain security from; as, to escape danger. “Sailors that escaped the wreck.” William Shakespeare

2. To avoid the notice of; to pass unobserved by; to evade; as, the fact escaped our attention.

They escaped the search of the enemy.— Edmund Ludlow

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54