egress

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle), Verb (intransitive)
• HYPHEN: e=gress

CIDE DICTIONARY

egress, n. [L. egressus, fr. egredi to go out; e out + gradi to go. See Grade.].

•  The act of going out or leaving, or the power to leave; departure.  [1913 Webster]

  "Embarred from all egress and regress."  [1913 Webster]

  "Gates of burning adamant,
  Barred over us, prohibit all egress."  [1913 Webster]
•  The passing off from the sun's disk of an inferior planet, in a transit.  [1913 Webster]

egress, v. i. 

 To go out; to depart; to leave.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

egress, n.
1 a going out. b the right of going out.
2 an exit; a way out.
3 Astron. the end of an eclipse or transit.

Derivative

egression n. (in senses 1, 2).

Etymology

L egressus f. egredi egress- (as E-, gradi to step)

THESAURUS

egress

abandonment, adit, avenue, blowhole, bow out, channel, chute, cleaning out, clearance, clearing, conduit, course, debouch, decampment, defecation, depart, departure, depletion, discharging cargo, ditch, door, drainage, draining, duct, egression, elimination, emergence, emerging, emptying, emunctory, entrance, escape, estuary, evacuation, excretion, exhaust, exhausting, exhaustion, exit, exodus, flight, floodgate, flume, get out, getaway, go out, going, hegira, ingress, leaving, loophole, make an exit, march out, off-loading, opening, out, outcome, outfall, outgate, outgo, outlet, parting, pass out, passage, passageway, passing, pore, port, removal, retirement, retreat, run out, sally port, sluice, spiracle, spout, tap, trench, trough, troughing, troughway, tunnel, unloading, vent, ventage, venthole, venting, voidance, voiding, vomitory, walk out, walkout, way, way out, weir, withdrawal

ROGET THESAURUS

egress

Egress

N egress, exit, issue, emersion, emergence, outbreak, outburst, eruption, proruption, emanation, egression, evacuation, exudation, transudation, extravasation, perspiration, sweating, leakage, percolation, distillation, oozing, gush, outpour, outpouring, effluence, effusion, effluxion, drain, dribbling, defluxion, drainage, outcome, output, discharge, export, expatriation, emigration, remigration, debouch, debouche, emunctory, exodus, emigrant, outlet, vent, spout, tap, sluice, floodgate, pore, vomitory, outgate, sally port, way out, mouth, door, path, conduit, airpipe, effused, outgoing.

VB emerge, emanate, issue, egress, go out of, come out of, move out of, pass out of, pour out of, flow out of, pass out of, evacuate, exude, transude, leak, run through, out through, percolate, transcolate, egurgitate, strain, distill, perspire, sweat, drain, ooze, filter, filtrate, dribble, gush, spout, flow out, well, well out, pour, trickle, effuse, extravasate, disembogue, discharge itself, debouch, come forth, break forth, burst out, burst through, find vent, escape.

Passage

N passage, transmission, permeation, penetration, interpenetration, transudation, infiltration, endosmose exosmose, endosmosis, intercurrence, ingress, egress, path, conduit, opening, journey, voyage, passing, intercurrent, endosmosmic, endosmotic, en passant.