reescape
English
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[edit]reescape (third-person singular simple present reescapes, present participle reescaping, simple past and past participle reescaped)
- to escape again.
- 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:
- 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,
- 1988, Ma. Po Civañāṉam, History of Freedom Movement in Tamil Nadu, page 170:
- But they did not go to Pondy not to reescape from the struggles.
- 2008, Joseph A. Eichmeier, Manfred Thumm, Vacuum Electronics: Components and Devices, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 232:
- 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.
- 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:
Noun
[edit]reescape (plural reescapes)
- a second escape.
- 1898, W. J. McGee, John Napoleon Brinton Hewitt, The Seri Indians, page 70:
- 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.
- 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:
- 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.
- 2002, Patrick Marnham, Resistance and betrayal: the death and life of the greatest hero of the French Resistance, Random House Inc:
- […] Lyon she heard the story of Hardy's escape, arrest and reescape.