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to egress
01
to come out of or leave a place
Transitive: to egress a place
Grammatical Information
Composition
Simple
movement verb
regular
present tense
egress
3rd person singular
egresses
present participle
egressing
past simple
egressed
past participle
egressed
Examples
In case of a fire, employees are trained to calmly egress the building using the designated emergency exits.
Egress
01
the act or process of exiting or leaving a place, typically a building, area, or location
Grammatical Information
animacy status
abstract
Composition
Compound
countable
plural form
egresses
Examples
The emergency exit provided a safe egress for the employees during the fire drill.
02
(astronomy) the reappearance of a celestial body after an eclipse
03
the becoming visible
Lexical Tree
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