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Noun escape has 8 senses
- escape, flight - 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"
--1 is a kind of running away
--1 has particulars: | | evasion; break, breakout, jailbreak, gaolbreak, prisonbreak, prison-breaking; getaway, lam; exodus, hegira, hejira; Hegira, Hejira; Underground Railroad, Underground Railway |
- escape, escapism - 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"
--2 is a kind of diversion, recreation
- escape, leak, leakage, outflow - 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"
--3 is a kind of discharge, outpouring, run
- safety valve, relief valve, escape valve, escape cock, escape - 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
--4 is a kind of valve; regulator
- evasion, escape, dodging - 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"
--5 is a kind of negligence, carelessness, neglect, nonperformance
--5 has particulars:
- escape - an avoidance of danger or difficulty; "that was a narrow escape"
--6 is a kind of avoidance, turning away, shunning, dodging
- escape - a means or way of escaping; "hard work was his escape from worry"; "they installed a second hatch as an escape"; "their escape route"
--7 is a kind of means, agency, way
- escape - a plant originally cultivated but now growing wild
--8 is a kind of plant, flora, plant life
Verb escape has 7 senses
- escape, get away, break loose - run away from confinement; "The convicted murderer escaped from a high security prison"
--1 is one way to flee, fly, take flight
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- miss, escape - fail to experience; "Fortunately, I missed the hurricane"
--2 is one way to avoid
Sample sentences:
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Somebody ----s somebody
- get off, get away, get by, get out, escape - escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action; "She gets away with murder!"; "I couldn't get out from under these responsibilities"
--3 is one way to avoid
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- elude, escape - be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by; "What you are seeing in him eludes me"
--4 is one way to perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound
Sample sentence:
The performance is likely to escape Sue
- escape - issue or leak, as from a small opening; "Gas escaped into the bedroom"
--5 is one way to issue, emerge, come out, come forth, go forth, egress
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- escape, get away - 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"
--6 is one way to escape, get away, break loose
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- run, scarper, turn tail, lam, run away, hightail it, bunk, head for the hills, take to the woods, escape, fly the coop, break away - flee; take to one's heels; cut and run; "If you see this man, run!"; "The burglars escaped before the police showed up"
--7 is one way to leave, go forth, go away
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