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escape

English

🔊 the act of escaping physically
“he made his escape from the mental hospital”
🔊 a means or way of escaping
“hard work was his escape from worry”
🔊 an avoidance of danger or difficulty
“that was a narrow escape”
🔊 an inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy
“romantic novels were her escape from the stress of daily life”
🔊 the discharge of a fluid from some container
“they tried to stop the escape of gas from the damaged pipe”
🔊 a plant originally cultivated but now growing wild
🔊 nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do
“his evasion of his clear duty was reprehensible”
🔊 a valve in a container in which pressure can build up (as a steam boiler)
🔊 issue or leak, as from a small opening
“Gas escaped into the bedroom”
🔊 run away from confinement
“The convicted murderer escaped from a high security prison”
🔊 remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion
“We escaped to our summer house for a few days”
🔊 fail to experience
“Fortunately, I missed the hurricane”
🔊 be incomprehensible to
“What you are seeing in him eludes me”
🔊 escape potentially unpleasant consequences
“She gets away with murder!”
🔊 flee
“If you see this man, run!”