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Definitions for Escape

[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.
[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.
[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] (usually initial capital letter ) Computers . Escape key.
[20] for or providing an escape: an escape route.
[21] a key (frequently labeled Esc) found on most computer keyboards and used for any of various functions, as to interrupt or cancel the current process or running program, or to close a pop-up window.
[22] to get away or break free from (confinements, captors, etc) the lion escaped from the zoo
[23] to manage to avoid (imminent danger, punishment, evil, etc) to escape death
[24] (intr usually foll by from ) (of gases, liquids, etc) to issue gradually, as from a crack or fissure; seep; leak water was escaping from the dam
[25] (tr) to elude; be forgotten by the actual figure escapes me
[26] (tr) to be articulated inadvertently or involuntarily a roar escaped his lips
[27] (intr) (of cultivated plants) to grow wild
[28] the act of escaping or state of having escaped
[29] avoidance of injury, harm, etc a narrow escape
[30] a means or way of escape (as modifier ) an escape route
[31] a means of distraction or relief, esp from reality or boredom angling provides an escape for many city dwellers
[32] a gradual outflow; leakage; seepage
[33] Also called: escape valve , escape cock a valve that releases air, steam, etc, above a certain pressure; relief valve or safety valve
[34] a plant that was originally cultivated but is now growing wild

Words related to Escape

flight, rescue, disappearance, freedom, departure, liberation, desertion, breakout, withdrawal, outbreak, fly, dodge, depart, emerge, avoid, evade, leave, slip, elude, run

Words nearby Escape

escallop, escalope, escambia, escanaba, escapade, escape, escape artist, escape beat, escape clause, escape hatch, escape key

Origin of Escape

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)

Other words from Escape

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.
self-es·cape , noun
un·es·cap·a·ble , adjective
un·es·cap·a·bly , adverb
un·es·caped , adjective

Word origin for Escape

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

Synonyms for Escape

breakout, departure, desertion, disappearance, flight, freedom, liberation, outbreak, rescue, withdrawal, AWOL, abdication, avoidance, beat, bolt, break, bypassing, circumvention, decampment, deliverance, dodging, ducking, elopement, elusion, elusiveness, evasion, evasiveness, extrication, fadeout, hegira, lam, leave, out, powder, release, retreat, shunning, sidestepping, slip, spring, eschewal, runaround