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Home  »  Roget’s International Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases  »  295. [Motion Out Of.] Egress.

Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.

Class II. Words Relating to Space
Section IV. Motion
4. Motion with Reference to Direction

295. [Motion Out Of.] Egress.

   NOUN:EGRESS, exit, issue; emersion, emergence; outbreak, outburst, proruption [rare], eruption; emanation; egression; evacuation, disemboguement, exudation, transudation; extravasation, perspiration, sweating, leakage, percolation, lixiviation, leaching, distillation, seep, oozing; gush &c. (water in motion) [See River]; outpour, outpouring; effluence, effusion; efflux, effluxion; drain; dribbling &c. v.; defluxion; drainage; outcome, output; outflow, discharge (excretion) [See Excretion].
  EXPORT, exportation; exports, shipments.
  EMIGRATION, exodus (departure) [See Departure]; expatriation, remigration.
  EMIGRANT, migrant, redemptioner [U. S.], colonist, émigré [F.].
  OUTLET, vent, spout, tap, sluice, flood-gate; vomitory, outgate, sallyport; debouch [mil.], débouché [F.]; way out; mouth, door (opening) [See Opening]; path (way) [See Method]; conduit [See Conduit]; airpipe [See Air Pipe]; pore, emunctory.
   VERB:EMERGE, emanate, issue; egress; go -, come -, move -, pass -, pour -, flow- out of; pass off, evacuate.
  EXUDE, transude; leak; run, – out, – through; lixiviate, leach, percolate, transcolate [obs.]; egurgitate [rare]; strain, distill; perspire, sweat, drain, seep, ooze; filter, infiltrate, filtrate; dribble, gush, spout, flow out; well, – out; pour, trickle, &c. (water in motion) [See River]; effuse, extravasate, disembogue, discharge itself, debouch; come -, break forth; burst -out, – through; find vent; escape [See Escape].
   ADJECTIVE:EMERGENT, emerging, erumpent, eruptive, emanant, emanational, emanative, exudative, porous, pervious, leaky, sweaty, transudatory; effused &c. v.; outgoing, outbound, outward-bound.
  PERCOLATIVE, oozing, gushing, transuding &c. v.; effluent, emunctory, effusive, excretory.
   QUOTATION:Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, I arise.—Shelley