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Escape   /ɪskˈeɪp/   Listen
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."


noun
Escape  n.  
1.
The act of fleeing from danger, of evading harm, or of avoiding notice; deliverance from injury or any evil; flight; as, an escape in battle; a narrow escape; also, the means of escape; as, a fire escape. "I would hasten my escape from the windy storm."
2.
That which escapes attention or restraint; a mistake; an oversight; also, transgression. (Obs.) "I should have been more accurate, and corrected all those former escapes."
3.
A sally. "Thousand escapes of wit."
4.
(Law) The unlawful permission, by a jailer or other custodian, of a prisoner's departure from custody.
5.
(Bot.) A plant which has escaped from cultivation. Note: Escape is technically distinguishable from prison breach, which is the unlawful departure of the prisoner from custody, escape being the permission of the departure by the custodian, either by connivance or negligence. The term escape, however, is applied by some of the old authorities to a departure from custody by stratagem, or without force.
6.
(Arch.) An apophyge.
7.
Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid.
8.
(Elec.) Leakage or loss of currents from the conducting wires, caused by defective insulation.
Escape pipe (Steam Boilers), a pipe for carrying away steam that escapes through a safety valve.
Escape valve (Steam Engine), a relief valve; a safety valve. See under Relief, and Safety.
Escape wheel (Horol.), the wheel of an escapement.





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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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