a. [f. as prec. + -LESS.] Without escape; that cannot be escaped.
1855. Tait’s Mag., XXII. 552/1. On her it [marriage] presses with all the weight of an escapeless fate.
1856. Ruskin, Mod. Paint., III. IV. xv. § 5. A chasm as utterly hopeless and escapeless as any into which Dante gazed.
