escaping

Etymology

verb

1. present participle and gerund of escape

noun

1. The act of one who escapes; an escape.
2. That which escapes or leaks out; an emission.
   The faint, yet growing escapings of gas were in her nostrils as she slumped into a chair and began painfully to scrawl on the paper. 1947, Joseph Dever, No Lasting Home, page 406
   Loud rumblings in the bunkhouse that night awakened the punchers often, with many rude comments made about the gastronomical escapings of certain people. 2006, William W. Johnstone, Gunsight Crossing