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scaping

scaping is the present participle and gerund of scape.

Meaning of scape

Verb

scape (third-person singular simple present scapes, present participle scaping, simple past and past participle scaped)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To escape (someone or something).
    • No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace / As I have seen in one autumnal face. / Young beauties force our love, and that's a rape, / This doth but counsel, yet you cannot scape.c. 1600, John Donne, Elegy IX: The Autumnal, in Poems (1633)

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Questions about scaping

What is scaping the present participle and gerund of?
Scaping is the present participle and gerund of scape.

Words near scaping in the dictionary

  1. scaphotrapezoidal
  2. scaphotriquetral
  3. scapi
  4. scapiform
  5. scapigerous
  6. scaping
  7. scapinin
  8. scapinins
  9. Scaplehorn
  10. scapoid
  11. scapolite

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