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escapeless

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es⋅cape

  [i-skeyp] verb, -caped, -cap⋅ing, noun, adjective
Use escapeless in a Sentence
–verb (used without object)
1. to slip or get away, as from confinement or restraint; gain or regain liberty: to escape from jail.
2. to slip away from pursuit or peril; avoid capture, punishment, or any threatened evil.
3. to issue from a confining enclosure, as a fluid.
4. to slip away; fade: The words escaped from memory.
5. Botany. (of an originally cultivated plant) to grow wild.
6. (of a rocket, molecule, etc.) to achieve escape velocity.
–verb (used with object)
7. to slip away from or elude (pursuers, captors, etc.): He escaped the police.
8. to succeed in avoiding (any threatened or possible danger or evil): She escaped capture.
9. to elude (one's memory, notice, search, etc.).
10. 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.
–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.
17. Botany. a plant that originated in cultivated stock and is now growing wild.
18. Physics, Rocketry. the act of achieving escape velocity.
19. Computers. a key (frequently labeled ESC) found on microcomputer keyboards and used for any of various functions, as to interrupt a command or move from one part of a program to another.
–adjective
20. for or providing an escape: an escape route.
Origin:
1250–1300; ME escapen, ascapen < ONF escaper (F échapper) < VL *excappāre, v. deriv. (with ex- ex- 1 ) of LL cappa hooded cloak (see cap 1 )

Related forms:
es⋅cap⋅a⋅ble, adjective
es⋅cape⋅less, adjective
es⋅cap⋅er, noun
es⋅cap⋅ing⋅ly, adverb

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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Legal Dictionary

Main Entry: escape
Function: noun
1 : an act or instance of escaping
2 : the criminal offense of escaping
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: 3escape
Function: adjective
: providing a means of escape <escape literature>
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Medical Dictionary

escape es·cape (ĭ-skāp')
n.

  1. A gradual effusion from an enclosure; a leakage.

  2. 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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