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What does escapee mean?

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Noun
  1. Someone who has become free through escaping imprisonment.
  2. Someone who has escaped.
  3. (botany) A plant that has escaped from cultivation.
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As to his being an escapee from custody, I have serious doubts whether that was so.
The incident was sparked off at about noon by a sighting in Colchester of a prison escapee.
They would be trying to spot and capture the escapee, who was jailed after smashing his way into a woman's home as she lay in bed.
The nightly news was on, showing her picture, telling how she was a prison escapee who was armed and dangerous.
Constables in Humberside, England, got a tip that a prison escapee was living in their town.
Major Hilary Evans was a prisoner of war escapee, who lived rough in Italy's hills and mountains to avoid recapture.

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