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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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... that the horror of incest is not innate lies furthermore in the unquestionable fact that a man can escape the calamity of falling in love with his sister or daughter only if he knows the relationship. There are many instances on record—to which the daily press adds others—of incestuous unions brought ...

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... that four officers sat round it, playing cards by the light of a lamp. At Marut there was always a heavy superfluity of men, and these four, doubtless weary of standing uselessly about, had made good their escape to enjoy themselves in their own way. Nehal Singh hesitated. He felt a strong desire to go up and join them, to learn to know them outside the enervating, leveling atmosphere of social intercourse where each is forced ...

— The Native Born - or, The Rajah's People • I. A. R. Wylie

... the weather were very calm and bright. The salmon, as they lay in the clear, sun-lit water, were speared from a boat, and vast numbers were so killed; indeed, the frightened fish had small chance of escape, for spearing began at the pool's foot, and men with leisters blocked the way of escape up stream. No doubt into this, as into its kindred sport "burning," excitement in plenty, and boisterous fun, entered largely; many a man, miscalculating the depth ...

— Stories of the Border Marches • John Lang and Jean Lang

... were a Tuscan order of priests, who attempted to predict futurity by observing the beasts offered in sacrifice. They formed their opinions most commonly from inspecting the entrails, but there was no circumstance too trivial to escape their notice, and which they did not believe in some degree portentous. The arusp'ices were most commonly consulted by individuals; but their opinions, as well as those of the augurs, were taken on all important affairs of state. The arusp'ices seem ...

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