unescapably
verb (used without object)
1.
to slip or get away, as from confinement or restraint; gain or regain liberty: to escape from jail. Synonyms: flee, abscond, decamp.
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. Synonyms: dodge, flee, avoid.
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.
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noun
12.
an act or instance of escaping. Synonyms: flight.
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.
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)
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), pre·es·caped, pre·es·cap·ing.
Synonym Study
7. 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.
7. 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.
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escape (ɪˈskeɪp) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —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 | |
| es'capable | |
| —adj | |
| es'caper | |
| —n | |
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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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