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Defenition of the word escape

    • Defenition of the word escape

      • The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation.
      • Leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation.
      • To get free, to free oneself.
      • To flee; to take to one's heels; to cut and run.
      • be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by; "What you are seeing in him eludes me"
      • a means or way of escaping; "hard work was his escape from worry"; "they installed a second hatch as an escape"; "their escape route"
      • an avoidance of danger or difficulty; "that was a narrow escape"
      • a plant originally cultivated but now growing wild
      • an inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy; "he escaped into romantic novels"; "his alcohol problem was a form of escapism"
      • 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"
      • remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion; "We escaped to our summer house for a few days"; "The president of the company never manages to get away during the summer"
      • run away from confinement; "The convicted murderer escaped from a high security prison"
      • the unwanted discharge of a fluid from some container; "they tried to stop the escape of gas from the damaged pipe"; "he had to clean up the leak"
      • 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"
      • escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action; "She gets away with murder!" "I couldn't get out from under these responsibilities"
      • fail to experience; "Fortunately, I missed the hurricane"
      • 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
      • 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"
      • issue or leak, as from a small opening; "Gas escaped into the bedroom"
      • escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action; "She gets away with murder!"; "I couldn''t get out from under these responsibilities"
      • flee; take to one''s heels; cut and run; "If you see this man, run!"; "The burglars escaped before the police showed up"
      • the act of escaping physically
      • a means or way of escaping
      • an avoidance of danger or difficulty
      • an inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy
      • nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do
      • the discharge of a fluid from some container
      • issue or leak, as from a small opening
      • fail to experience
      • escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action
      • run away from confinement
      • flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
      • remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion
      • be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by

    Synonyms for the word escape

      • avoid
      • avoidance
      • break
      • break away from
      • break loose
      • break out
      • breakout
      • discharge
      • distraction
      • diversion
      • dodge
      • dodging
      • drain
      • drip
      • elude
      • escape cock
      • escape valve
      • escaping
      • escapism
      • evade
      • evasion
      • flee
      • flight
      • flow
      • get away
      • get by
      • get off
      • get out
      • getaway
      • getting away from
      • leak
      • leakage
      • leisure activity
      • miss
      • outflow
      • pastime
      • relief valve
      • run away
      • run off
      • running away
      • running off
      • safety valve
      • seep
      • seepage
      • shake off

    Similar words in the escape

      • escape
      • escapee
      • escapee's
      • escapees

    Hyponyms for the word escape

      • bilk
      • break
      • break away
      • break out
      • breakout
      • circumvention
      • defy
      • elude
      • escape
      • escape from
      • escape mechanism
      • evade
      • evasion
      • exodus
      • flee
      • fly
      • gaolbreak
      • get away
      • getaway
      • goldbricking
      • goofing off
      • hegira
      • hejira
      • jailbreak
      • lam
      • malingering
      • prison-breaking
      • prisonbreak
      • refuse
      • resist
      • run away
      • shake
      • shake off
      • shirking
      • skedaddle
      • skulking
      • slacking
      • slip
      • soldiering
      • take flight
      • throw off
      • Underground Railroad
      • Underground Railway

    Hypernyms for the word escape

      • agency
      • amaze
      • avoid
      • avoidance
      • baffle
      • beat
      • bewilder
      • break loose
      • carelessness
      • come forth
      • come out
      • discharge
      • diversion
      • dodging
      • dumbfound
      • egress
      • emerge
      • escape
      • flee
      • flora
      • flummox
      • fly
      • get
      • get away
      • go away
      • go forth
      • gravel
      • issue
      • leave
      • means
      • mystify
      • neglect
      • negligence
      • nonperformance
      • nonplus
      • outpouring
      • perplex
      • plant
      • plant life
      • pose
      • puzzle
      • recreation
      • regulator
      • run
      • running away
      • shunning
      • stick
      • stupefy
      • stupify
      • take flight
      • trounce
      • turning away
      • valve
      • vex
      • way

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