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Escape   /ɪskˈeɪp/   Listen
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.
noun
1.
The act of escaping physically.  Synonym: flight.  "The canary escaped from its cage" , "His flight was an indication of his guilt"
2.
An inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy.  Synonym: escapism.  "His alcohol problem was a form of escapism"
3.
Nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do.  Synonyms: dodging, evasion.  "That escape from the consequences is possible but unattractive"
4.
An avoidance of danger or difficulty.
5.
A means or way of escaping.  "They installed a second hatch as an escape" , "Their escape route"
6.
A plant originally cultivated but now growing wild.
7.
The discharge of a fluid from some container.  Synonyms: leak, leakage, outflow.  "He had to clean up the leak"
8.
A valve in a container in which pressure can build up (as a steam boiler); it opens automatically when the pressure reaches a dangerous level.  Synonyms: escape cock, escape valve, relief valve, safety valve.



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"Escape" Quotes from Famous Books



... that they owe their success, for it enables them to get all the heat of combustion into the working substance, to use a relatively very high temperature at the top of the range, and at the same time to escape entirely the drawbacks that arise in the air-engine proper through the need of conveying heat to the air ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia
... not help showing their mirth and pleasure in their work, and would be always wishing to express it in a tangible and more or less enduring form, and the workshop would once more be a school of art, whose influence no one could escape from. ...
— Signs of Change • William Morris
... he had no chance of escape, let run the ankers of brandy that he might not be condemned; but still he was in an awkward situation, as he had more men on board than allowed by Act of Parliament. He therefore stood on, notwithstanding the shot of the cutter ...
— Peter Simple and The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2 • Frederick Marryat
... will heed it and thus escape the delusions and perils of these last days, and be finally saved in the ...
— Modern Spiritualism • Uriah Smith
... an ingathering of back hands, a tightening of traces; the sleds leaped forward, and the men clung to the gee poles, violently accelerating the uplift of their feet that they might escape going under the runners. The weariness of the day fell from them, and they whooped encouragement to the dogs. The animals responded with joyous yelps. They were swinging through the gathering ...
— The Son of the Wolf • Jack London


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