"escape valve" meaning in English

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      "form": "escape valves",
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        "plural"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "glosses": [
        "A valve on a boiler to let the steam escape."
      ],
      "id": "en-escape_valve-en-noun-XsqrPwS3",
      "links": [
        [
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          "steam"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "izpuskatelen klapan",
          "sense": "A valve on a boiler so as to let the steam escape",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "изпускателен клапан"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "A valve on a boiler so as to let the steam escape",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "válvula de escape"
        }
      ]
    },
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2018, Peter Beattie, Social Evolution, Political Psychology, and the Media in Democracy, page 148",
          "text": "Lastly, self-affirmation provides us an escape valve if we come face to face with the intrinsic evil of our actions and role within a group.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any psychological mechanism to relieve stress."
      ],
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        [
          "relieve",
          "relieve"
        ],
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          "stress",
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative) Any psychological mechanism to relieve stress."
      ],
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        "figuratively"
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    }
  ],
  "word": "escape valve"
}

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  "forms": [
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      "form": "escape valves",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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  "pos": "noun",
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        "A valve on a boiler to let the steam escape."
      ],
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          "boiler",
          "boiler"
        ],
        [
          "steam",
          "steam"
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          "ref": "2018, Peter Beattie, Social Evolution, Political Psychology, and the Media in Democracy, page 148",
          "text": "Lastly, self-affirmation provides us an escape valve if we come face to face with the intrinsic evil of our actions and role within a group.",
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        "Any psychological mechanism to relieve stress."
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        "(figurative) Any psychological mechanism to relieve stress."
      ],
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  "translations": [
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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "izpuskatelen klapan",
      "sense": "A valve on a boiler so as to let the steam escape",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "изпускателен клапан"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "A valve on a boiler so as to let the steam escape",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "válvula de escape"
    }
  ],
  "word": "escape valve"
}