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escapee:

{the letter ‘c’ in this word is pronounced with a ‘k’ sound as in “king”}

an escapee trying to escape through a open window

a person who escapes/escaped from some place of restriction;

Timothy Wayne Fletcher, a recaptured escapee from Putnam County Jail

a prisoner who has escaped from prison (jail)

(to escape = to get away/run away from some place or person when one is kept in a place where there is no freedom to go or move freely as one likes)

Compare:

An ‘escapee’ is a person who runs away from a confined place physically to find freedom outside — from inside to outside; whereas an ‘escapist’ is a person who runs away or tries to get away from realities and responsibilities mentally, probably because of a weak mind or very lazy nature, and tries to escape into his/her own imaginary world or fantasy — runs away into his/her own mind — from outside into inside!

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