Escape
[ɪ'skeɪp;e-] or [ɪˈskep]
Definition
(noun.) the act of escaping physically; 'he made his escape from the mental hospital'; 'the canary escaped from its cage'; 'his flight was an indication of his guilt'.
(noun.) a means or way of escaping; 'hard work was his escape from worry'; 'they installed a second hatch as an escape'; 'their escape route'.
(noun.) an avoidance of danger or difficulty; 'that was a narrow escape'.
(noun.) an inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy; 'romantic novels were her escape from the stress of daily life'; 'his alcohol problem was a form of escapism'.
(noun.) the discharge of a fluid from some container; 'they tried to stop the escape of gas from the damaged pipe'; 'he had to clean up the leak'.
(noun.) a plant originally cultivated but now growing wild.
(verb.) issue or leak, as from a small opening; 'Gas escaped into the bedroom'.
(verb.) run away from confinement; 'The convicted murderer escaped from a high security prison'.
(verb.) remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion; 'We escaped to our summer house for a few days'; 'The president of the company never manages to get away during the summer'.
Typed by Edmund--From WordNet
Definition
(v.) To flee from and avoid; to be saved or exempt from; to shun; to obtain security from; as, to escape danger.
(v.) To avoid the notice of; to pass unobserved by; to evade; as, the fact escaped our attention.
(v. i.) To flee, and become secure from danger; -- often followed by from or out of.
(v. i.) To get clear from danger or evil of any form; to be passed without harm.
(v. i.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) That which escapes attention or restraint; a mistake; an oversight; also, transgression.
(n.) A sally.
(n.) The unlawful permission, by a jailer or other custodian, of a prisoner's departure from custody.
(n.) An apophyge.
(n.) Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid.
(n.) Leakage or loss of currents from the conducting wires, caused by defective insulation.
Editor: Sheldon
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Avoid, shun, evade, elude, flee from, get out of the way of.[2]. Pass unobserved.
v. n. [1]. Flee, fly, abscond, decamp, VAMOSE, ABSQUATULATE, SLOPE, make or effect one's escape, make off, steal away, hasten away, slink away, run away, break loose, break away, gain one's freedom, whip off, take one's self off, beat a retreat, take to one's heels, cut and run, take French leave, be among the missing.[2]. Slip, pass, go by, slip through the fingers, be passed over, be omitted.
n. [1]. Flight.[2]. Release (from threatened danger).
Checked by Irving
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Elude, decamp, abscond, fly, flee, evade, avoid
ANT:Incur, confront, encounter, meet, suffer
Inputed by Hilary
Definition
v.t. to free from: to pass unobserved: to evade: to issue.—v.i. to flee and become safe from danger: to be passed without harm.—n. act of escaping: flight from danger or from prison.—adj. Escap′able.—ns. Escapāde′ an escape: a mischievous freak; Escāpe′ment act of escaping: means of escape: part of a timepiece connecting the wheelwork with the pendulum or balance and allowing a tooth to escape at each vibration; Escape′-valve a valve on a boiler so as to let the steam escape when wanted.
Typed by Laverne
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of escape from injury or accidents, is usually favorable. If you escape from some place of confinement, it signifies your rise in the world from close application to business. To escape from any contagion, denotes your good health and prosperity. If you try to escape and fail, you will suffer from the design of enemies, who will slander and defraud you.
Edited by Charlene
Examples
- Others again kept out of the way, hoping to escape either alternative. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- By no means, Alexandros; for by so doing we would close up the only avenue of escape left to us. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- It was easy to escape, or I should not have got away. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The author, being informed of a design to accuse him of high-treason, makes his escape to Blefuscu. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- To go thither, to escape across the Ohio river, were the first hurried outlines of her plan of escape; beyond that, she could only hope in God. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Let us escape at once. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- We have the right to escape if we can, I answered. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- The unfortunate inquirer staggered against a wall, a faint cry escaped her --O! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Suppose the thief had got away by dropping from one of the upper windows, how had he escaped the dogs? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Throughout the whole period of Mr. Candy's illness, from first to last, not one word about the Diamond escaped his lips. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- She was as if escaped from some danger. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- In the case of the cologne, some molecules must have escaped from the liquid by the process of evaporation and traveled through the air to the nose. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The winter remained mild for an unusually long time--he could have escaped; but instead he remained in Moscow, making impossible plans, at a loss. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Opening the grenades under water and collecting the gas that escaped it was found that the average amount of carbon dioxide contained was about one cubic inch per grenade. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Elizabeth listened as little as she could, but there was no escaping the frequent mention of Wickham's name. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- The approximate loss was upward of five hundred killed, but few of the officers escaping. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I left the agent with my mind relieved from all present fear of the Count's escaping me. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- If he renewed it (and I had reasons, shortly to be mentioned, for anticipating that he would), I might be certain of his not escaping me. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- As to escaping, what chances there were of escape? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- To men who only aim at escaping felony, nothing short of the prisoner's dock is disgrace. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I was trusted with the secret of Colonel Herncastle's plan for escaping assassination. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The condensed steam escapes at _w_. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Grimes' hairbreadth escapes from Bedouins, but I think I could read them now without a tremor. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- One horse had a heavy fall on the slippery rocks, and the others had narrow escapes. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The dangers and hair-breadth escapes of a life of adventures, instead of disheartening young people, seem frequently to recommend a trade to them. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- In tending her patient, and in thinking of the wonderful escapes of the day before, her second day passed away not too slowly with Amelia. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- In some men it is half-conscious, in others a minor influence, but almost no one of weight escapes the contagion of it entirely. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The carbon dioxide thus produced within the body escapes into the atmosphere with the breath. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
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