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verb

Escape v. t. (past & past part. escaped; pres. part. escaping)

1.

To flee from and avoid; to be saved or exempt from; to shun; to obtain security from; as, to escape danger. "Sailors that escaped the wreck."

2.

To avoid the notice of; to pass unobserved by; to evade; as, the fact escaped our attention. "They escaped the search of the enemy."

Escape v. i.

1.

To flee, and become secure from danger; often followed by from or out of.

2.

To get clear from danger or evil of any form; to be passed without harm. "Such heretics... would have been thought fortunate, if they escaped with life."

3.

To get free from that which confines or holds; used of persons or things; as, to escape from prison, from arrest, or from slavery; gas escapes from the pipes; electricity escapes from its conductors. "To escape out of these meshes."

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Etymology of 'Escaped'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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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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