escort
/ɪsˈkɔɹt/ verb C2- To attend to in order to guard and protect; to accompany as a safeguard (for the person escorted or for others); to give honorable or ceremonious attendance to.
- To accompany (a person) in order to compel them to go somewhere (e.g. to leave a building).
- To go with someone as a partner, for example on a formal date.
- To work as an escort (sex worker).
He/she/it escorts · Past escorted · Past participle escorted · -ing form escorting
Verb forms
- Base form
- escort
- He/she/it
- escorts
- Past
- escorted
- Past participle
- escorted
- -ing form
- escorting
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de Villefort relieved all Dantès’ apprehensions; he advanced calmly, and placed himself in the centre of the escort.
I have promised to escort to the Académie a Greek princess of my acquaintance who has never seen your grand opera, and who relies on me to conduct her thither.”
“Yes, to escort him into the capital.
Instead of that he took two tickets for the theatre, escorted his fiancée halfway there, and then suddenly disappeared.”
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