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Escape   /ɪskˈeɪp/   Listen
Escape

verb
(past & past part. escaped; pres. part. escaping)
1.
Run away from confinement.  Synonyms: break loose, get away.
2.
Fail to experience.  Synonym: miss.
3.
Escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action.  Synonyms: get away, get by, get off, get out.  "I couldn't get out from under these responsibilities"
4.
Be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by.  Synonym: elude.
5.
Remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion.  Synonym: get away.  "The president of the company never manages to get away during the summer"
6.
Flee; take to one's heels; cut and run.  Synonyms: break away, bunk, fly the coop, head for the hills, hightail it, lam, run, run away, scarper, scat, take to the woods, turn tail.  "The burglars escaped before the police showed up"
7.
Issue or leak, as from a small opening.
noun
1.
The act of escaping physically.  Synonym: flight.  "The canary escaped from its cage" , "His flight was an indication of his guilt"
2.
An inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy.  Synonym: escapism.  "His alcohol problem was a form of escapism"
3.
Nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do.  Synonyms: dodging, evasion.  "That escape from the consequences is possible but unattractive"
4.
An avoidance of danger or difficulty.
5.
A means or way of escaping.  "They installed a second hatch as an escape" , "Their escape route"
6.
A plant originally cultivated but now growing wild.
7.
The discharge of a fluid from some container.  Synonyms: leak, leakage, outflow.  "He had to clean up the leak"
8.
A valve in a container in which pressure can build up (as a steam boiler); it opens automatically when the pressure reaches a dangerous level.  Synonyms: escape cock, escape valve, relief valve, safety valve.



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"Escape" Quotes from Famous Books



... tortured in body and soul—a figure of tremendous tragedy, the hapless man once worshipped by the people spreading impotent hands to the outer world, until madness comes to his relief and suicide helps him to escape into eternity and leave only his wasted ...
— The Eternal City • Hall Caine
... argument was so unanswerable that I did not know what to say. So I only asked what he meant to do, as escape was impossible, seeing that we were surrounded ...
— She and Allan • H. Rider Haggard
... endeavour to rescue a boy from the wreck of the Anson, (pp. 128, 129.) Captain Temple, of the Crescent, and more than two hundred of his crew, displayed a noble disregard of themselves, when they permitted the jolly-boat, their own last hope of escape, to take off as many as it would hold, and leave them to perish. There was no rushing, no struggling, to get away from the sinking ship, but with orderly care they helped the boat to push off, bade her God ...
— Narratives of Shipwrecks of the Royal Navy; between 1793 and 1849 • William O. S. Gilly
... face with Sibyl, and to see her innocence, rather than hear it, as soon as he had brought his tongue to repeat that foul calumny. He would then know how to deal with the creature who thought to escape ...
— The Whirlpool • George Gissing
... dangers that beset Roddy. It was she who had sighed and whispered through the closed shutters, frightening Christine at first, but in the end engendering trust, and it was she who, on hearing of the narrow escape of Roddy from the tarantula, had made up her mind to spirit him, with the aid of Meekie and the storm, from the farm and its dangers until the ...
— Blue Aloes - Stories of South Africa • Cynthia Stockley


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