scape
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Is scape a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (botany) A leafless stalk growing directly out of a root, bulb, or subterranean structure.
2. (architecture) The shaft of a column.
3. (architecture) The apophyge of a shaft.
verb (English)
1. (transitive, archaic) To escape (someone or something).Examples: "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."; "He (to beguile the ſimple) makes no bone / To ſvvear by God (for he beleeues ther's none); / His Svvord's his Title; and vvho ſcapes the ſame, / Shall haue a Piſtol, or a Poyſonie dram: […]"; "Hee will provide you keyes, and locks, to spie, / And scape spies, to good ends"archaictransitive
noun (English)
1. (archaic) Escape.Examples: "I spake of most disastrous chances, […] Of hairbreadth scapes in the imminent, deadly breach."archaic
2. (obsolete) A means of escape; evasion.obsolete
3. (obsolete) A freak; a slip; a fault; an escapade.Examples: "Not pardoning so much as the scapes of error and ignorance."obsolete
4. (obsolete) A loose act of vice or lewdness.Examples: "though I am not bookish, yyet I can read waiting-gentlewoman in the 'scape"obsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary