to slip or get away, as from confinement or restraint; gain or regain liberty: to escape from jail.
to slip away from pursuit or peril; avoid capture, punishment, or any threatened evil.
to issue from a confining enclosure, as a fluid.
to slip away; fade: The words escaped from memory.
Botany. (of an originally cultivated plant) to grow wild.
(of a rocket, molecule, etc.) to achieve escape velocity.
verb (used with object),es·caped,es·cap·ing.
to slip away from or elude (pursuers, captors, etc.): He escaped the police.
to succeed in avoiding (any threatened or possible danger or evil): She escaped capture.
to elude (one's memory, notice, search, etc.).
to fail to be noticed or recollected by (a person): Her reply escapes me.
(of a sound or utterance) to slip from or be expressed by (a person, one's lips, etc.) inadvertently.
noun
an act or instance of escaping.
the fact of having escaped.
a means of escaping:We used the tunnel as an escape.
avoidance of reality: She reads mystery stories as an escape.
leakage, as of water or gas, from a pipe or storage container.
Botany. a plant that originated in cultivated stock and is now growing wild.
Physics, Rocketry. the act of achieving escape velocity.
(usually initial capital letter)Computers. Escape key.
adjective
for or providing an escape: an escape route.
Origin of escape
First recorded in 1250–1300; Middle English escapen, ascapen, from Old North French escaper, from French échapper or directly from unattested Vulgar Latin excappāre, verbal derivative (with ex- “out of, from”) of Late Latin cappa “hooded cloak”; see ex-1, cap1
SYNONYMS FOR escape
1 flee, abscond, decamp.
7 dodge, flee, avoid.
12 flight.
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synonym study for escape
7. Escape,elude,evade mean to keep free of something. To escape is to succeed in keeping away from danger, pursuit, observation, etc.: to escape punishment. To elude implies baffling pursuers or slipping through an apparently tight net: The fox eluded the hounds. To evade is to turn aside from or go out of reach of a person or thing: to evade the police. See also avoid.
pre·es·cape,noun,verb (used without object),pre·es·caped,pre·es·cap·ing.self-es·cape,nounun·es·cap·a·ble,adjectiveun·es·cap·a·bly,adverbun·es·caped,adjective
On that planet, there are orbiters imaging the landscape, measuring atmospheric escape and chemistry, and surveying the weather.
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To make your escape, remove your 550 laces and tie them together to make a single, long cord.
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They have escape routes from their main tunnels and escape routes from their escape routes.
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As she struggles to hold her marriage together or spend enough time with her kids, the show is keenly aware of how this is a double standard, one that she can’t escape no matter how hard she tries.
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After the captain made the call to abandon ship, 150 people were able to escape on lifeboats lowered by electronic arms.
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The irony did not escape one local, Laith Hathim, as he stood and watched the newly minted refugees make their way into Mosul.
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Cubans are cursed whether they find a means of escape or remain.
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He wants to know every external detail, even if the escape is ultimately to be shot on a sound stage.
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Then when we arrive at his flat in Shepherd's Bush following the escape, perhaps there ought to be remnants of the ladder.
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We cannot escape this tremendous solidarity of the human race.
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I was looking for Aryaka, in all the excitement about his escape from prison.
The Little Clay Cart|(Attributed To) King Shudraka
Cuchillo fearing that his victim might escape him, now wished more than ever that he should join the expedition.
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But Ransom was no fool and, stepping back out of the way of temptation, he allowed him to escape without further parley.
The Chief Legatee|Anna Katharine Green
If you escape, and I fall—Fanny—my father, he will take care of her,—you remember—thanks!
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British Dictionary definitions for escape
escape
/ (ɪˈskeɪp) /
verb
to get away or break free from (confinements, captors, etc)the lion escaped from the zoo
to manage to avoid (imminent danger, punishment, evil, etc)to escape death
(intr usually foll by from) (of gases, liquids, etc) to issue gradually, as from a crack or fissure; seep; leakwater was escaping from the dam
(tr)to elude; be forgotten bythe actual figure escapes me
(tr)to be articulated inadvertently or involuntarilya roar escaped his lips
(intr)(of cultivated plants) to grow wild
noun
the act of escaping or state of having escaped
avoidance of injury, harm, etca narrow escape
a means or way of escape
(as modifier)an escape route
a means of distraction or relief, esp from reality or boredomangling provides an escape for many city dwellers
a gradual outflow; leakage; seepage
Also called: escape valve, escape cocka valve that releases air, steam, etc, above a certain pressure; relief valve or safety valve
a plant that was originally cultivated but is now growing wild
Derived forms of escape
escapable, adjectiveescaper, noun
Word Origin for escape
C14: from Old Northern French escaper, from Vulgar Latin excappāre (unattested) to escape (literally: to remove one's cloak, hence free oneself), from ex-1 + Late Latin cappa cloak
A cardiological situation in which one pacemaker defaults or an atrioventricular conduction fails, and another pacemaker sets the heart's pace for one or more beats.