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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



... 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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