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Antonyms for escorted

Grammar : Verb
Spell : noun es-kawrt; verb ih-skawrt
Phonetic Transcription : noun ˈɛs kɔrt; verb ɪˈskɔrt


Definition of escorted

Origin :
  • 1570s, in military sense, from Middle French escorte (16c.), from Italian scorta, literally "a guiding," from scorgere "to guide," from Vulgar Latin *excorrigere, from ex- "out" (see ex-) + corrigere "set right" (see correct). The sense of "person accompanying another to a social occasion" is 1936.
  • verb act as a companion, guard
Example sentences :
  • Thus leaning on his uncle, he was escorted back to the hostel.
  • Extract from : « The Armourer's Prentices » by Charlotte M. Yonge
  • They escorted him all the way to his eighty-thousand-dollar home.
  • Extract from : « A Night Out » by Edward Peple
  • He seemed to have escorted the other to the spot, and then to have left him there to do the job single-handed.
  • Extract from : « The Secret Agent » by Joseph Conrad
  • Dinney and Hunkie escorted Gloria to the end of the street and back.
  • Extract from : « Gloria and Treeless Street » by Annie Hamilton Donnell
  • Whom Defarge escorted to the top of the stairs, and, leaving seated there, returned.
  • Extract from : « A Tale of Two Cities » by Charles Dickens
  • Mrs. Moriarty continued the bombardment, as she escorted him to the door of the flat.
  • Extract from : « Cap'n Warren's Wards » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • He escorted her in a manner and with a manner which made that walk a sort of royal progress.
  • Extract from : « Fair Harbor » by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
  • A fifty gun ship and a frigate, which escorted them, escaped.
  • Extract from : « The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. IX » by Various
  • She rose and I escorted her within; then went to my own chamber to bathe and rest.
  • Extract from : « The Strolling Saint » by Raphael Sabatini
  • Three young ladies of Haverhill went to see it, escorted by Mr. Whittier.
  • Extract from : « Whittier-land » by Samuel T. Pickard

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