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verb (used without object)

to slip or get away, as from confinement or restraint; gain or regain liberty: to escape from jail.

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.

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(of a rocket, molecule, etc.) to achieve escape velocity.

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verb (used with object)

to slip away from or elude (pursuers, captors, etc.): He escaped the police.

to succeed in avoiding (any threatened or possible danger or evil): She escaped capture.

to elude (one's memory, notice, search, etc.).

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to fail to be noticed or recollected by (a person): Her reply escapes me.

11.

(of a sound or utterance) to slip from or be expressed by (a person, one's lips, etc.) inadvertently.

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noun

12.

an act or instance of escaping.

13.

the fact of having escaped.

14.

a means of escaping: We used the tunnel as an escape.

15.

avoidance of reality: She reads mystery stories as an escape.

16.

leakage, as of water or gas, from a pipe or storage container.

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Botany. a plant that originated in cultivated stock and is now growing wild.

18.

Physics, Rocketry. the act of achieving escape velocity.

19.

(usually initial capital letter) Computers. Escape key.

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adjective

20.

for or providing an escape: an escape route.

Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English escapen, ascapen < Old North French escaper (French échapper) < Vulgar Latin *excappāre, verbal derivative (with ex- ex-¹) of Late Latin cappa hooded cloak (see cap¹)

Related forms

es·cap·a·ble, adjective

es·cape·less, adjective

es·cap·er, noun

es·cap·ing·ly, adverb

pre·es·cape, noun, verb (used without object), -caped, -cap·ing.

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self-es·cape, noun

un·es·cap·a·ble, adjective

un·es·cap·a·b·ly, adverb

un·es·caped, adjective

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Synonyms
1. flee, abscond, decamp. 7. dodge, flee, avoid. Escape, elude, evade mean to keep free of something. To escape is to succeed in keeping away from danger, pursuit, observation, etc.: to escape punishment. To elude implies baffling pursuers or slipping through an apparently tight net: The fox eluded the hounds. To evade is to turn aside from or go out of reach of a person or thing: to evade the police. See also avoid. 12. flight.

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But it also means that college doesn't provide the usual escape from the realities of the job market.

Even a wholly technocratic government can never fully escape politics.

Many clever and creative ideas helped slaves during their escape.

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But it also means that college doesn't provide the usual escape from the realities of the job market.

Even a wholly technocratic government can never fully escape politics.

Many clever and creative ideas helped slaves during their escape.

The vessel remained intact, but some radiation did escape from the plant into the surrounding environment.

Nima quickly gets tangled up in a race to escape the island alive.

Layered plantings, an irregular path, and giant pavers transform the small backyard into a soothing garden escape.

In the movies, prison inmates spend their time whittling chess pieces and digging escape tunnels with modded teaspoons.

But when the revolution failed and the bloody reprisals began, he knew he had to either escape or risk arrest.

The cheetah is perfectly honed to hunt gazelles-but the gazelle is equally well equipped to escape cheetahs.

Along the way some were lost to enemy forces trying to escape while others were able to find their way to freedom.

To escape predators in the ocean, these cephalopods will speed away by shooting a jet of water.

Saigon swirled with panicked mobs desperate to escape.

Look for escape routes or potential ad-hoc fallout shelters.

But she did not escape the vision of people flinging themselves out of the building to their death on the plaza below.

In theory, it can move so fast that ripples on the surface are no longer able to escape back upstream.

Black mambas are shy and will almost always seek to escape when confronted.

The reason black holes are black is simple: their gravity is so strong that nothing--not even light--can escape them.

Interestingly, the escape response to trucks persists in the absence of real danger.

There is no record of a successful escape ever being made.

At a research university, you may be able to escape a certain amount of student contact by immersing yourself in your scholarship.

Many more changed their names, clothing and other giveaway features of their ancestry to escape persecution.

The beach's gentle surf makes it a favorite escape for families.

They escape the treatments, they hide out, and then they come back.

They form a vortex from which no ship has ever been able to escape.

It is a feel-good, anything-goes escape from a world of boring regular cars.

The colleges could escape risk by lowering their default rates before then.

It is hard for soldiers to escape unless the borders are close.

Since then there have been reports that the islanders used their ancient knowledge of nature to escape the tsunami.

They are also chronically sick, making it harder for them to escape poverty.

No one who was there, or who watched it on television, could escape the memory of what took place before their eyes.

It's possible that dead ants are carried outside, allowing the hatching wasps to escape.

Alas, you will not escape regulations by doing contract rather than grant work.

As the economy declines people look for the quick escape from reality that drugs provide.

They wounded one of the bears, which managed to escape.

One particle falls into the black hole, while the other is free to escape.

There's also the threat of pathogens that could thrive in crowded pens and escape to harm natural fish populations.

It might be wise to process what happened before planning your great escape.

He says black holes never form an absolute event horizon-ie, a boundary from which nothing can escape.

The building's one working fire escape collapsed under the weight of the women trying to escape.

Lizards will often shed their tails to escape a predator.

RVs offer the flexibility to escape often and make memories for less than you think.

Only they, who cannot escape their uniforms, are not given the privilege to lie about their nation of origin.

Even precious metals cannot escape the curse of the portfolio investor, in other words.

The storm's impending landfall has sent millions of people inland to escape fierce winds and a deadly storm surge.

To escape the earth's atmosphere, rockets need a lot of fuel.

Also in here was a secret escape hatch the king could use in case of trouble.

People bandied about every excuse in the book in an attempt to escape.

Flying fish are thought to have evolved this remarkable gliding ability to escape predators, of which they have many.

Because when haddock face a net, they swim up to escape and get caught.

Fold and double seal edges of foil so the steam doesn't escape the packets.

Its speed in the water allows it to escape its predator, the polar bear.

Extensive evacuation would be impossible because the surging water would cut off the few escape routes.

Only a half-wit creator trying to escape hunger, poverty and illness would resort to such idiotic demands.

Other animals might use this migratory escape method as well.

Watch a slippery cephalopod show why its kind are among the great escape artists of the deep.

Check out our latest exhibitions, escape to another culture with our.

For me it is an escape, an escape from the prison of an ordinary life".

Escape to an oceanside hotel this winter at one of these budget-friendly dream vacations.

Generals were pelted with questions about how such supposedly-sensitive information was allowed to escape into the public sphere.

On the other hand, it will be harder for people to escape mistakes they made in the past.

Almost half were suicides and many were as a result of falling from high buildings, often while trying to escape their employers.

Cranking up the artificial cool is one way to escape the heat this month.

Nuwere has been asked whether he thinks his book will encourage other kids to turn to hacking to escape poverty, as he did.

Socrates went to his death because he refused to compromise or to escape.

Japan's prime minister has had another skilful escape.

But researchers speculate that they may have been trying to escape a volcanic eruption.

Two women almost crashed their cars into each other trying to escape.

There are even stowable skateboard straps so you can carry your escape vehicle with you.

As fewer low-income people escape poverty by attending college, states have greater costs in social services.

If the burly-and surly-turbaned doormen deem you respectable, you can escape from the city's sweltering heat into its lobby.

Chameleons can easily escape the attention of both predators and the prey they capture with their enormous tongue.

Popular and useful groundcover, though it will escape into lawns unless contained.

We were exploring the kitchen, trying to find a way to escape this deathtrap of a cruise liner, when suddenly.

My life has been shaped by the need to escape that moment.

They used to be able to escape justice through brutality at home, or if that failed, fleeing abroad.

Scientists speculate that the tremors coincided with the sideways escape of pent-up gases.

Almost simultaneously, two speed boats were observed breaking off to escape.

Please try not to let them out" knowing that if they do escape the bedroom, they probably still won't make it outside.

For a while, it looks as if she is talented enough to escape.

We are living on the same earth, no any region can escape when the earth is polluted and destroyed.

If the content was not exchanged for money, individuals could escape prosecution.

Some wrote that books were a form of escape because the rest of their life sucked.

Whatever he does, the issue of succession is likely to escape the secrecy in which it has been wrapped for decades.

Watch spewing volcanoes, descending lava, and a truck try to escape a lava trap.

Earthworms often come to the surface to escape moles.

One suspect was injured attempting to escape by leaping from a third-floor apartment, he said.

Others have sought to escape the boredom of retirement.

Digital technologies do not help manufacturers with labour needs escape from unions.

If photons exert gravity on a black hole then they should be able to escape a black hole.

And, contrary to popular perceptions, mammals did not escape the extinction event unscathed.

They escape through the air holes and do not seem to have powerful enough jaws to chew the gel.

We should stop letting ourselves escape learning math–and hence letting the math profs escape teaching math to everyone.

The struggle to escape poverty begins with a big decision: whether to seek paid employment or work for oneself.

Afghan women who set themselves on fire may do so to escape abuse at home, believing they will die instantly.

One mirror was thinner so that some of the light could escape as a beam.

The foxes devoured eggs and goslings, which couldn't fly to escape.

Catch your breath, sharpen your focus and scour the seas and the skies for your futile attempt to escape us.

America's megabanks have stampeded to repay it before the new year, desperate to escape the stigma and meddling it has brought.

Even if snakes manage to bite their attackers, they rarely escape from hungry badgers.

Then, a pressure valve in the nuclear primary system stuck open allowing large amounts of reactor coolant to escape.

Optimum head deceleration is achieved by controlling the speed with which the air can escape from this air-bladder.

Many reckon the country will be lucky to escape further violence.

Though they may blend anonymously with higher castes on city streets, they can't escape segregated housing.

But they couldn't escape the giant, greenish-yellow cloud.

Some to escape warfare, others because the caves made convenient, low-rent dwellings.

In the second spot, the character tries to escape the saccharine prison.

The reactor also lacks a back-up mechanism to stop it overheating and exploding should the helium coolant escape.

Its tail also helps a gecko escape from hungry predators.

They want to escape the penalties of their own actions.

Up or down from the plane of our system to escape and realize things from the center of the sun outward, both directions.

Galifianakis tries to escape the torpor of his domestic and professional life in the face of stress-triggered blow-ups.

Hard to escape being ogled at because you are a professor.

They were taught to punish and even kill other children who disobeyed or sought to escape.

Augustine certainly knows when trajectories change and escape velocities are attained.

Instead, it works in mysterious ways, moving through invisible systems and unseen channels that escape explanation.

Nothing, it seems, is too petty to escape the notice of managers desperately trying to rein in their budgets.

To escape this fate, the butterfly quickly moves toward an exit, shedding white scales from its new wings as it goes.

You've got to run your character around a series of levels, collect some doohickeys, then escape out the exit.

One genotype, to use the jargon, may allow athletes who use anabolic steroids to escape detection altogether.

They rushed to the escape pod, where they waited for further orders.

If there is an additional hole in the reservoir then the gas will escape quickly.

More than an escape from fighting an insurgency thousands of miles from home, they serve as a bridge.

It offers them a chance to play a role, to escape from their ordinary lives.

Up to the time of her spectacular escape she, too, believed only in coincidences.

All were built so that their load-bearing walls would escape a direct hit from incoming waves.

People who want to escape reality by being altered all the time are ill-not criminals.

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World English Dictionary

escape (ɪˈskeɪp)

—vb (usually foll by from)
1.	to get away or break free from (confinements, captors, etc): the lion escaped from the zoo
2.	to manage to avoid (imminent danger, punishment, evil, etc): to escape death
3.	(of gases, liquids, etc) to issue gradually, as from a crack or fissure; seep; leak: water was escaping from the dam
4.	(tr) to elude; be forgotten by: the actual figure escapes me
5.	(tr) to be articulated inadvertently or involuntarily: a roar escaped his lips
6.	(intr) (of cultivated plants) to grow wild

—n
7.	the act of escaping or state of having escaped
8.	avoidance of injury, harm, etc: a narrow escape
9.	a. a means or way of escape
	b. (as modifier): an escape route
10.	a means of distraction or relief, esp from reality or boredom: angling provides an escape for many city dwellers
11.	a gradual outflow; leakage; seepage
12.	escape valve, Also called: escape cock a valve that releases air, steam, etc, above a certain pressure; relief valve or safety valve
13.	a plant that was originally cultivated but is now growing wild

[C14: from Old Northern French escaper, from Vulgar Latin excappāre (unattested) to escape (literally: to remove one's cloak, hence free oneself), from ex-¹ + Late Latin cappa cloak]

es'capable

—*adj*

es'caper

—n

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Etymonline

Word Origin & History

escape

c.1300, from O.N.Fr. escaper, from O.Fr. eschaper, from V.L. *excappare, lit. "get out of one's cape, leave a pursuer with just one's cape," from L. ex- "out of" + L.L. cappa "mantle." Related: Escaped; escaping. Escapee first attested 1875. Escape clause in the legal sense first recorded 1945.

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Medical Dictionary

escape es·cape (ĭ-skāp')
n.

A gradual effusion from an enclosure; a leakage.
A cardiological situation in which one pacemaker defaults or an atrioventricular conduction fails, and another pacemaker sets the heart's pace for one or more beats.

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Computing Dictionary

ESCAPE definition

language
An early system on the IBM 650.
[Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959)].
(1995-01-05)

escape definition

character
(ESC) ASCII character 27.
When sent by the user, escape is often used to abort execution or data entry. When sent by the computer it often starts an escape sequence.
(1997-11-27)

American Heritage

Idioms & Phrases

escape

In addition to the idiom beginning with escape, also see narrow escape.

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