Definitions for egresses

egresses e·gress

Spelling: [noun ee-gres; verb ih-gres]
IPA: /noun ˈi grɛs; verb ɪˈgrɛs/

Egresses is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 67 anagrams from letters in egresses (eeegrsss).

Definitions for egresses

noun

  1. the act or an instance of going, especially from an enclosed place.
  2. a means or place of going out; an exit.
  3. the right or permission to go out.
  4. Astronomy. emersion (def 1).

verb (used without object)

  1. to go out; emerge.

Origin of egresses

1530-40; Latin ēgressus going out, escape, equivalent to ēgred(ī) to go out (ē- e-1 + -gredī, combining form of gradī to go, step; cf. g

Examples for egresses

He looks about him, and discovers that is the door of egress, not of ingress.

egress from the city was possible only through the valley of Gihon and the valley of Jehoshaphat.

There were for a few days much hurry and bustle, both of egress and of ingress.

But it soon became certain that there was no egress from this gullet.

My hand, bully; thou shalt have egress and regress;—said I well?

And lastly, his egress out of the world, is nobody knows where.

It had been broken off, and this means of egress was unavailable.

The waters of the great deep have ingress and egress to the soul.

Neither are there any not equally subject to the ingress and egress of mortality.

The serpent, not finding an egress in the cavern, might return the same way it had gone.

Word Value for egresses
Scrable

7

Words with friends

8

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