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escape
[ ih-skeyp ]
verb (used without object)
- to slip or get away, as from confinement or restraint; gain or regain liberty:
to escape from jail.
Synonyms: , ,
- 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)
- to slip away from or elude (pursuers, captors, etc.):
He escaped the police.
Synonyms: , ,
- 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.
Synonyms:
- 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.
escape
/ ɪˈɪ /
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
- intrusually foll byfrom (of gases, liquids, etc) to issue gradually, as from a crack or fissure; seep; leak
water was escaping from the dam
- tr to elude; be forgotten by
the actual figure escapes me
- tr to be articulated inadvertently or involuntarily
a 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, etc
a narrow escape
- a means or way of escape
- ( as modifier )
an escape route
- a means of distraction or relief, esp from reality or boredom
angling provides an escape for many city dwellers
- a gradual outflow; leakage; seepage
- Also calledescape valveescape cock a 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
- ˈ, noun
- ˈ貹, adjective
Other Word Forms
- ·a· adjective
- ·l adjective
- ·İ noun
- ·iԲ· adverb
- e· noun verb (used without object) preescaped preescaping
- -· noun
- un·a· adjective
- ܲe·a· adverb
- ܲe· adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of escape1
Idioms and Phrases
In addition to the idiom beginning with escape , also see narrow escape .Synonym Study
Example Sentences
The suspect escaped the scene before exiting the city.
But it instead feels like an easy escape hatch when what “On Swift Horses” promised was a richer psychological landscape about what roils inside hearts accustomed to hiding.
He indulges in his compulsions to escape from his own discomfort, and consistently blames his actions on his current love interest.
Many Zamzam residents had been there for two decades, after escaping previous conflicts in Darfur.
Oftentimes the Marshals Service will work with state and local law enforcement agencies on particularly difficult cases, such as hunting down a man who escaped a Pennsylvania prison last year.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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