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Escaped   /ɪskˈeɪpt/   Listen
Escaped

adjective
1.
Having escaped, especially from confinement.  Synonyms: at large, loose, on the loose.  "Searching for two escaped prisoners" , "Dogs loose on the streets" , "Criminals on the loose in the neighborhood"


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.



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"Escaped" Quotes from Famous Books



... men properly instructed for the ministry; and that all preachers should urge upon the people the importance of faith and its fruits. This book was the foundation of Spener's greatest influence and also of the strongest opposition with which he met. As long as he taught in private he escaped all general antagonism; but on the publication of his work he became the mark of envy, ...
— History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology • John F. Hurst
... had not escaped the warped viewpoint which others assume toward travel. Casey always had craved the sensation of swift moving through space. His old stage horses could tell you tales of that! It was a distinct comedown, buying burros for his venture. That ...
— Casey Ryan • B. M. Bower
... upon the Pension Bureau have been brought to light within the last year, and in some instances merited punishments inflicted; but, unfortunately, in others guilty parties have escaped, not through the want of sufficient evidence to warrant a conviction, but in consequence of the provisions of limitation ...
— State of the Union Addresses of Franklin Pierce • Franklin Pierce
... from the eggs and began to eat the pine needles. They had good appetites, but they never seemed to do the trees any serious harm, because they were hotly pursued by birds. It was seldom that more than a few hundred caterpillars escaped the pursuers. ...
— The Wonderful Adventures of Nils • Selma Lagerlof
... his preoccupation. So he stretched his leg under the table and kicked viciously at Stuart's boots. Old General Rojas, the Vice-President, who sat next to Stuart, moved suddenly and then blinked violently at the ceiling with an expression of patient suffering, but the exclamation which had escaped him brought Stuart back to the present, and he talked with the woman next ...
— Soldiers of Fortune • Richard Harding Davis


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