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escape::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | get away |
| Type of | break loose, get away |
| Derivation | escapist |
We escaped to our summer house for a few days.
escape::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | escape cock, escape valve, relief valve, safety valve |
| Type of | valve, regulator |
escape::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | dodging, evasion |
| Type of | neglect, carelessness, negligence, nonperformance |
| Has types | slacking, soldiering, malingering, goofing off, circumvention, escape mechanism, goldbricking, shirking, skulking |
that escape from the consequences is possible but unattractive.
escape::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Type of | go away, go forth, leave |
| Has types | fly, take flight, skedaddle, flee |
The burglars escaped before the police showed up.
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | break loose, get away |
| Type of | fly, flee, take flight |
| Has types | slip, bilk, break, break away, break out, elude, escape from, evade, exfiltrate, get away, throw off, run away, shake, shake off |
| Derivation | escapee |
The convicted murderer escaped from a high security prison.
escape::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | escapism |
| Type of | diversion, recreation |
romantic novels were her escape from the stress of daily life.
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | flight |
| Type of | running away |
| Has types | break, lam, hegira, evasion, prison-breaking, prisonbreak, skedaddle, breakout, jailbreak, hejira, getaway, gaolbreak, exodus |
he made his escape from the mental hospital.
the canary escaped from its cage.
escape::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | dodging, shunning, turning away, avoidance |
that was a narrow escape.
escape::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | plant life, flora, plant |
Examples of escape
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He said investigators have no reason to believe jail employees aided the escape.
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Call this one a guilty pleasure, or just an enjoyable escape for a couple hours.
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The Huskers want to escape their past but can't really dive into the future yet.
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She represents escape from the constraints of even the most bountiful childhood.
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Drake and Southern Illinois are trying to escape the play-in round in St. Louis.
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Last, but not least, the American people can't escape a fair share of the blame.
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Caulk around windows to seal holes where cold air may enter and warm air escape.
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Alonso left his native Mexico 20 years ago to escape poverty on his family farm.
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Please is a small word and could escape detection, or its absence be overlooked.
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- Run away from confinement; "The convicted murderer escaped from a high security prison"
- 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"
- 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"
- Miss: fail to experience; "Fortunately, I missed the hurricane"
- Evasion: nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do; "his evasion of his clear duty was reprehensible"; "that escape from the consequences is possible but unattractive"
- Get off: escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action; "She gets away with murder!"; "I couldn't get out from under these responsibilities"
- "Escape!" is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. It was first published as "Paradoxical Escape" (a publisher's change in the title) in the August 1945 issue of Astounding Science Fiction and reprinted as "Escape! ...
- Escape is a 1930 British crime film directed by Basil Dean and starring Gerald du Maurier, Edna Best, Gordon Harker and Austin Trevor. A man escape from Dartmoor Prison and is hunted across the moors by policemen to whom it is an unpleasant reminder of their experiences during the First World War.
- Escape is a 1940 drama film about an American in pre-World War II Nazi Germany who discovers his mother is in a concentration camp and tries desperately to free her. It starred Robert Taylor, Norma Shearer, Conrad Veidt and Alla Nazimova. ...
