Definition of "escapee" []

• One that has escaped, especially an escaped prisoner. See Usage Note at -ee1. (noun)

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• "An escapee is marooned on a formerly inhabited island."
• "I suppose it's only fitting then, that the lone escapee from the asylum -- Chief Bromden -- is the one who in the larger sense had been oppressed the longest and suffered the deepest of all the inmates and who, having observed all intelligently, finally acted with the decisiveness and clarity that eluded the misguided fury of Cheswick's thwarted rebellion."
• "Um, that was not a resident … it was an escapee from the mental ward."