getaway

/ɡˈɛtəweɪ/

getaway

English Noun Top 9,559
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Definition

A means of escape.

Etymology

Deverbal from get away.

Example Sentences

  • "This dramatic arrival of the figure in landscape had revitalized its whole problem for him, and that on the practice of a métier going a little stale by repetition. No get away from it, Edmund, he had to have the model. And what a model - tinted up by nature herself as the perfect complement of her own harmonics!"
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