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Escaped   /ɪskˈeɪpt/   Listen
Escaped

adjective
1.
Having escaped, especially from confinement.  Synonyms: at large, loose, on the loose.  "Searching for two escaped prisoners" , "Dogs loose on the streets" , "Criminals on the loose in the neighborhood"



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.



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"Escaped" Quotes from Famous Books



... of asking too much and the folly of asking too little Government is best which governs least Honesty is difficult Insensate pride that mothers have in their children's faults Joyful shame of children who have escaped punishment Married Man: after the first start-off he don't try Nothing in the way of sport, as people commonly understand it People whom we think unequal to their good fortune Society interested in a woman's past, not her future The great ...
— Widger's Quotations from the Works of William Dean Howells • David Widger

... groan escaped from Miss Combermere as she ejaculated: 'Oh, my pearl necklace!' and a still deeper and more audible sigh from her mamma, as the words burst forth: 'Oh, my diamond bandeau!' which led to an explanation from the distressed and bewildered ladies, of how they had intrusted these ...
— Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 441 - Volume 17, New Series, June 12, 1852 • Various

... At last we escaped and took the good train south. The Bolderos had already returned to London. They came to spend our first week-end at Northlands. Adrian professed to be in the robustest of health and to have not a care in the world. The holiday, said he, had done him incalculable good. Already ...
— Jaffery • William J. Locke

... a large company in three ships, when a sudden tempest arose, carried away our sail, blew us off the shore, and then increasing in fury drove us before it until we were wrecked on the coast of Ponthieu, near St. Valery. Since then we have been prisoners, have escaped, and have journeyed ...
— Wulf the Saxon - A Story of the Norman Conquest • G. A. Henty

... flesh and blood, and they liked their comfort; that he should think the whole time he was about to go in a-swimming, and should be looking about for a good place to dive"; together with a great many more similar objections, that have escaped me in the multitude of things of greater interest which have since occupied my time. I have frequently had occasion to observe, that, when a man has one good, solid reason for his decision, it is no easy matter to shake it; but, that he who has a great many, usually finds them ...
— The Monikins • J. Fenimore Cooper


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