单词 | escaped |
释义 | escapedes‧caped /ɪˈskeɪpt/ adjective [only before noun] Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatorsomeone who has escaped► escaped Collocations use this to describe someone who has escaped , especially from a prison: · Police are on the lookout for three escaped prisoners.· Sherwood, an escaped convict, hunted down his ex-girlfriend and killed her. ► be on the loose/be at large someone who is on the loose or at large has escaped from the police or from a prison and is likely to be dangerous: · There's a killer on the loose, and we've got to find him.· Carillo's murderer remained at large yesterday as investigators continued their search. ► be on the run someone who is on the run is trying to hide or escape from someone who is chasing them, especially the police: · After the train robbery he spent three years on the run.be on the run from: · Dean was a drug addict who was constantly on the run from the police. ► fugitive someone who has escaped from the police or from danger, who has to keep moving from one place to another so that they will not be caught: · Porter escaped in 1995 and remains a fugitive.fugitive from: · a fugitive from Stalin's oppressive regime COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY► escaped prisoner Word family an escaped prisoner COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► an escaped prisoner· Soldiers arrived, looking for escaped prisoners. ► escaped unhurt The driver escaped unhurt from the accident. COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB► narrowly· His three year-old daughter Jade narrowly escaped death when bullets were fired through the front door.· With Emma he had played with fire and narrowly escaped burning.· Read in studio A baby boy narrowly escaped death when his pram was crushed between a car and a garden wall.· A teenage mail-room worker at the Anglian Water headquarters in Huntingdon narrowly escaped injury when the package she was handling exploded. NOUN► convict· They say perhaps it was an escaped convict who got into the house while Joe was out.· We went on to the marshes with the soldiers and found the escaped convicts fighting each other. ► death· She was a former civil servant and escaped death only by telling her interrogators that she was a peasant.· His three year-old daughter Jade narrowly escaped death when bullets were fired through the front door.· Read in studio A baby boy narrowly escaped death when his pram was crushed between a car and a garden wall.· One taxi driver, whose cab was damaged by the Cavendish Square blast, escaped death by 30 seconds.· In 1966, Arthur Thompson, sen, escaped death in a bomb attack. ► injury· The 17 passengers and two crew escaped injury.· Aircraft extensively damaged but pilot and three passengers escaped injury.· A19 crash: Two drivers escaped injury when their vehicles collided near Thirsk.· Shocked driver Shaun Robinson crashed into a fence, writing off his Capri, but escaped injury.· School pupils escaped injury but 70 homes were damaged in the blast.· A teenage mail-room worker at the Anglian Water headquarters in Huntingdon narrowly escaped injury when the package she was handling exploded. ► prisoner· The man and wife arrested with him have been bailed but probably face further questioning about suspected harbouring of an escaped prisoner.· But the man who got into the front seat was Keith Hanger, an escaped prisoner wanted in connection with a murder.· The escaped prisoner saw us and screamed as he turned to run.· They had been brought here to round up the escaped prisoners but fortunately no one was giving them any information.· That morning Sir Henry and Barrymore argued about Selden, the escaped prisoner.· He is hiding from some one, too, but he is not an escaped prisoner.· We were nothing to do with the prison camp or the escaped prisoners. WORD FAMILYnounescapeescapismescapeeescapologistadjectiveescapedinescapableescapistverbescapeadverbinescapably an escaped person or animal has escaped from somewhere: an escaped prisoner |
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