escape
verb
[ ɪˈskeɪp ]
• break free from confinement or control.
• "two burglars have just escaped from prison"
Similar:
get away,
get out,
run away,
run off,
break out,
break free,
get free,
break loose,
make a break for it,
bolt,
clear out,
flee,
fly,
take flight,
make off,
take off,
decamp,
abscond,
take to one's heels,
make a/one's escape,
make good one's escape,
make a/one's getaway,
beat a (hasty) retreat,
show a clean pair of heels,
run for it,
make a run for it,
disappear,
vanish,
slip away,
steal away,
sneak away,
get out of someone's clutches,
bust,
do a bunk,
do a moonlight flit,
cut and run,
skedaddle,
skip,
head for the hills,
fly the coop,
take French leave,
vamoose,
hightail it,
do a runner,
hook it,
scarper,
leg it,
take a powder,
go on the lam,
Opposite:
be captured,
be imprisoned,
• fail to be noticed or remembered by (someone).
• "the name escaped him"
• interrupt (an operation) by means of the escape key.
escape
noun
• an act of breaking free from confinement or control.
• "the gang had made their escape"
Similar:
getaway,
breakout,
bolt for freedom,
running away,
flight,
bolting,
absconding,
decamping,
fleeing,
flit,
disappearance,
vanishing act,
springing,
• a form of temporary distraction from reality or routine.
• "romantic novels should present an escape from the dreary realities of life"
• a leakage of gas, liquid, or heat from a container.
• "a lid prevents the escape of poisonous gases"
Similar:
leak,
leakage,
spill,
seepage,
drip,
dribble,
discharge,
emanation,
issue,
flow,
outflow,
outpouring,
gush,
stream,
spurt,
spout,
squirt,
jet,
efflux,
• a key on a computer keyboard which either interrupts the current operation or causes subsequent characters to be interpreted differently.
Origin:
Middle English: from Old French eschaper, based on medieval Latin ex- ‘out’ + cappa ‘cloak’. Compare with escapade.
