Escape

Definition: Escape

Escape

Noun

1. 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".

2. An inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy; "he escaped into romantic novels"; "his alcohol problem was a form of escapism".

3. 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".

4. 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.

5. 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".

6. An avoidance of danger or difficulty; "that was a narrow escape".

7. A means or way of escaping; "hard work was his escape from worry"; "they installed a second hatch as an escape"; "their escape route".

8. A plant originally cultivated but now growing wild.

Verb

1. Run away from confinement; "The convicted murderer escaped from a high security prison".

2. Fail to experience; "Fortunately, I missed the hurricane".

3. Escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action; "She gets away with murder!" "I couldn't get out from under these responsibilities".

4. Be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by; "What you are seeing in him eludes me".

5. Issue or leak, as from a small opening; "Gas escaped into the bedroom".

6. 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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "escape" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Note: Escape \Es*cape"\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Escaped; Escaping.]. (references)

Computing

Aerospace

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Multilingual Slang

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ESCAPE

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Escape

Avoidance

Beat a retreat; turn tail, turn one's back; take to one's heels; runaway, run for one's life; cut and run; be off like a shot; fly, flee; fly away, flee away, run away from; take flight, take to flight; desert, elope; make off, scamper off, sneak off, shuffle off, sheer off; break away, tear oneself away, slip away, slink away, steel away, make away from, scamper away from, sneak away from, shuffle away from, sheer away from; slip cable, part company, turn one's heel; sneak out of, play truant, give one the go by, give leg bail, take French leave, slope, decamp, flit, bolt, abscond, levant, skedaddle, absquatulate, cut one's stick, walk one's chalks, show a light pair of heels, make oneself scarce; escape; go away; (depart); abandon; reject.

Avolation, flight; escape; retreat; recoil; departure; rejection.

Dereliction of Duty

Verb: violate; break, break through; infringe; set aside, set at naught; encroach upon, trench upon; trample on, trample under foot; slight, neglect, evade, renounce, forswear, repudiate; wash one's hands of; escape, transgress, fail.

Egress

Exude, transude; leak, run through, out through; percolate, transcolate; egurgitate; strain, distill; perspire, sweat, drain, ooze; filter, filtrate; dribble, gush, spout, flow out; well, well out; pour, trickle; (water in motion); effuse, extravasate, disembogue, discharge itself, debouch; come forth, break forth; burst out, burst through; find vent; escape.

Liberation

Gain one's liberty, obtain one's liberty, acquire one's liberty; get rid of, get clear of; deliver oneself from; shake off the yoke, slip the collar; break loose, break prison; tear asunder one's bonds, cast off trammels; escape.

Deliverance; redemption, extrication, acquittance, absolution; acquittal; escape;.

Safety

Verb: be safe; Adjective:; keep one's head above water, tide over, save one's bacon; ride out the storm, weather the storm; light upon one's feet, land on one's feet; bear a charmed life; escape.

Noun: safety, security, surety, impregnability; invulnerability, invulnerableness; Adjective:; danger past, danger over; storm blown over; coast clear; escape; means of escape; blow valve, safety valve, release valve, sniffing valve; safeguard, palladium.

Crosswords: Escape

Portuguese (blow-off, detent, escape, escapement, exhaust, leakage), Spanish (avoidance, blowoff, blowout, elopement, escape, escapement, exhaust, exhaust pipe, flight, fuite, getaway, leak, leakage).

We haven't tried not trying to escape. (Chicken Run; writing credit: Peter Lord; Nick Park)

So all we have to do is get in, break up the wedding, steal the princess, make our escape after I kill Count Rugen (The Princess Bride; writing credit: William Goldman)

It's a prison word for escape. But it doesn't stop around here (Midnight Express; writing credit: Billy Hayes; William Hoffer)

Brown-skinned girls who inflame your senses with their play, cool yellow-haired women who entice and escape you, gentle ones who serve you, slender ones who torment you, the mothers who bore and suckled you; all women whom God created out of the teeming fullness of the earth, are yours in the love of one woman (Rembrandt; writing credit: Carl Zuckmayer; June Head)

Escape the building - dead (The Invisible Man; writing credit: Craig Silverstein; Jonathan Glassner)

You can run, you can hide, but you can't escape my love (Escape; performing artist: Enrique Iglesias)

I couldn't escape the memory (Run-Around; performing artist: Blues Traveler)

And I'm trying to escape (One Last Breath; performing artist: Creed)

I had to escape (I Drove All Night; performing artist: Cyndi Lauper)

Still I can't escape the ghost of you (Ordinary World; performing artist: Duran Duran)

The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Escape (1973)

The Last Escape (1970)

Le Escape Goat (1967)

Escape from Hell Island (1965)

Monstrous Escape (1965)

Escape (The Pina Colada Song) (performing artist: Rupert Holmes)

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Books

• Escape (Island, 3) (reference)

• Escape Your Shape: How to Work Out Smarter, Not Harder (reference)

• Great Escape (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Escape With Games (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Escape from Alcatraz (reference)

• Escape from New York (reference)

• The Great Escape (reference)

• The Swan Princess II - Escape From Castle Mountain (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Escape Through Opera (reference)

• Escape (reference)

• Instrumental Escape Volume 5 (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Escape from Monkey Island (Jewel Case) (reference)

• R.L. Stine Goosebumps: Escape From Horrorland (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• X-IT Products AL-15 2-Story Emergency Escape Ladder (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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Astronaut Escape Testing. Credit: NASA.

Apollo Launch Escape System in Wind Tunnel. Credit: NASA.

Photograph of Nazi submariner foot trying to get out of submarine escape hatch Office of Strategic Services project to find sunken vessels with new technology Ray Tryon and John O. Phillips worked off USCGC GENTIAN in 1944 Example of early surface controlled ocean bottom photography. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

The winch operator is hauling in the cables to close the net. This closes the bottom of the net such that it is now like a purse. The fish no longer have any way to escape. Credit: Fisheries.

A combination turtle excluder device/bycatch reduction device manufactured by Saunders Marine Machine Shop. Fish escape by swimming forward and out of the large holes in the net. Shrimp are swept into the bag at the end of the net and cannot swim out. Credit: Fisheries.

Bar herring weir near Eastport, Maine; escape of fish prevented by receding tide From a photograph by T. W. Smillie. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection.

Diver riding a shrimp net watches a turtle escape through the excluder device. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

Captioned measured drawing of the 1984 and 1986 planimetric views of the top deck. The 1986 plan adds objects on the deck that were not originally recorded during the 1984 project. Delineated by Larry V. Nordby, Jerry L. Livingston, 1984; Larry V. Nordby, 1986. Drawings photographically reproduced and spliced onto the HAER Sheet by Robbyn Jackson, 1991. (Reproduction Number: HAER HI-13, sheet 3 of 4) This 1916 battleship is the final resting place for many of the 1,177 USS Arizona crewmen who died on December 7, 1941--the day of the Japanese air attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor. Hit by a 1,760-pound bomb shortly after 8:00 a.m., the ship sank in less than nine minutes, leaving very little time for the crew to escape. By the end of the attack, the Pacific Fleet had lost many ships and more than two thousand personnel. The attack on Pearl Harbor brought the United States into World War II. The USS Arizona received National Historic Landmark designation in 1989. Credit: Library of Congress.

Pilot of the Confederate Army armed transport Planter, who ran his ship out of Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, in the early morning of 13 May 1862 and delivered her to Federal forces. The Planter carried several other black men, women and children to freedom in this daring escape. Credit: NAVY.

Crewman A.L. Rosenkotter of USS V-5 (SC-1) demonstrates the use of the submarine's after escape hatch and the emergency escape "lung", during V-5's trials, July 1930. In 1931, V-5 was renamed and redesignated, becoming USS Narwhal (SS-167). Credit: NAVY.

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This, if barely so, is rather mockery than relief; and men can never be secure from tyranny, if there be no means to escape it till they are perfectly under it: and therefore it is, that they have not only a right to get out of it, but to prevent it. (Second Treatise of Government)

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Escape, however, was not his plan

So she tucked it away under her arm, that it might not escape again, and went back to have a little more conversation with her friend

But she said it with a hesitation that did not escape the acuteness of the child

Certainly, such a man deserved to escape political opinions

No escape.

But there were things he could not escape.

I longed to see the ocean, which must be the only scene of my escape, if ever it should happen

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Health

Albumin is smaller and therefore more likely to escape through the filters of the kidney, called glomeruli. (references)

Because sarcoidosis can escape diagnosis or be mistaken for several other diseases, we can only guess at how many people are affected. (references)

The smallest blood vessels (capillaries) become excessively permeable (“leaky”), allowing the fluid component to escape from the blood vessels. (references)

Business

Mexico City also offers many nearby points of interest that can be visited in one or two days to escape the big city. (references)

Children

Hong Kong

One youth died in April 2000 during an attempted escape from a detention center. (references)

Dominican Republic

There are several church-run shelters that provide refuge to children who escape prostitution. (references)

Brazil

In the large urban centers, children, principally girls, who leave home to escape abuse or sexual exploitation often prostituted themselves on the streets in order to survive. (references)

Civil Liberties

Korea

The regime reportedly retaliates against the relatives of some of those who manage to escape. (references)

Sierra Leone

More than an estimated 750,000 citizens remained displaced internally or had fled the country to escape the continuing insurgency. (references)

Saint Lucia

Immediately after the attack, the police arrested a 20-year-old male, who was rescued from a church mob as he tried to escape the scene of the incident. (references)

Economic History

Costa Rica

Defendants in a number of major cases have managed to escape the country during the years it can take for a verdict to be reached. (references)

Switzerland

Being so closely linked to the economies of Western Europe and the U.S., Switzerland has not been able to escape the slowdown being experienced in these countries. (references)

Kuwait

Aside from the few units that were able to escape to Saudi Arabia, including a majority of the air force, all of this equipment was either destroyed or taken by the Iraqis. (references)

Human Rights

India

The police state that he was killed while trying to escape. (references)

Colombia

FARC inmates said that FARC commanders had orchestrated the escape. (references)

Mexico

This was the second major escape from the Mexicali prison in 2 months. (references)

Minorities

Laos

Some international observers claim that governmental policies aimed at assimilating the Hmong into the larger society--such as regional boarding schools--are not respectful of Hmong native culture; others see this approach as an escape from centuries of poverty. (references)

Women

Philippines

The absence of divorce under the law and limited job opportunities combine to limit the ability of both poor and wealthy women to escape destructive relationships. (references)

Kuwait

In October the court threw out a case of a runaway maid who was reportedly picked up by two rapists and held for 4 days, because she did not cry for help or attempt to escape when left alone by the alleged rapists. (references)

Worker Rights

Japan

In any case, few spoke Japanese well, making escape even more difficult. (references)

Pakistan

Bonded laborers who escape often face retaliation from former employers. (references)

Turkey

Women who attempt to escape their trafficking often were beaten, raped, or killed. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "escape": air escape ♦ assistance by a public official in the escape of prisoners ♦ assistance in the escape of prisoners ♦ attempt to escape ♦ attempted escape ♦ AV junctional escape rhythm ♦ data link escape ♦ emergency escape windows ♦ escape apparatus ♦ escape artist ♦ escape attention ♦ escape by a hairbreadth ♦ escape by the skin of one's teeth ♦ escape character ♦ escape chute ♦ escape cock ♦ escape code ♦ escape expert ♦ escape from ♦ escape from prison ♦ escape from smb.'s grasp ♦ escape from the jaws of death ♦ escape hatch ♦ escape key ♦ escape ladder ♦ escape mechanism ♦ escape notice ♦ Escape pipe ♦ Escape Reaction ♦ escape reading ♦ escape recognition ♦ escape route ♦ escape sequence ♦ escape set ♦ escape slide ♦ escape smb.'s attention ♦ escape smb.'s lips ♦ escape smth. ♦ Escape valve ♦ escape velocity ♦ Escape wheel ♦ escape without a scratch ♦ evasion and escape ♦ fire escape ♦ hairbreadth escape ♦ have a hairbreadth escape ♦ have a narrow escape ♦ he had a narrow escape ♦ help smb. to escape ♦ helping to escape ♦ let escape ♦ letting escape ♦ make one's escape ♦ narrow escape ♦ Tumor Escape ♦ velocity of escape ♦ voluntary escape ♦ way of escape. Additional references.

Beginning with "escape": escape-committees, escape-kit, escape-proof, escape-route, escape-type.

Ending with "escape": fire-escape.

Afrikaans

ontsnap (flee), ontkom aan (flee). (various references)

Albanian

më del, arratis (guy, Lam), arratisem (break, break out, decamp, elope, evade, run off, scat, scoot, sling one's hook, take away, take flight), arratisje (break, debacle, decampment, elopement, escapement, evasion, flight, leg-bail, scamper, scape), dalje (egress, egression, emergence, emersion, eruption, exit, leakage, orifice, out, outcome, outcrop, outgo, outlet, recourse, recovery, rise, safety valve, salience, salient, shoot, vent), derdh (discharge, disgorge, dump, effuse, ejaculate, eject, empty out, found, outpour, pay in, pour, pour off, pour out, reject, run, scatter, shed, slop, spill, strew, tap, tip off, upset), derdhje (cast, casting, debouchment, effusion, ejaculation, ejection, inflow, influent, influx, outfall, outpouring, pour, spill), ik (begone, blast off, clear off, depart, exit, fly away, get along, get away, get out, give the guy to, go, go away, go off, go out, hence, leave, make away, make off, make one's bow, make oneself scarce, move away, pass, pass off, push off, retire, run away, run off, shoot through, take away, take off), arrati (escapade, runaway), kalim (crossing, cut, devolution, going, jump, lapse, negotiation, orifice, pass, passage, passageway, passing, release, switch over, transfer, transference, transit, transition), vetmi (desolation, oneness, privacy, solitude), më del nga mendja, më shpëton, prehje (repose), rrjedh (accrue, arise, come, come from, course, derive, descend, dote, flow, flow down, flow from, flux, leak, ooze, outflow, proceed, pump, result, run, spring, trickle), rrjedhje (derivation, dotage, dribble, efflux, effusion, flow, flowing, flux, leak, leakage, ooze, outflow), shmangem (circumvent, deflect, depart, deviate, diverge, dodge, duck, eschew, fence, fend off, fight shy of, forbear, funk, give a wide berth, glance, jink, jump, keep one's distance, leapfrog, Miss, Parry, refrain, shirk, shun, sidestep, steer clear of, tergiversate, wander), shpëtim (consolation, deliverance, refuge, rescue, salvation, save, saving), shpëtoj (bring off, bring through, carry through, creep out, deliver, elude, extricate, flee, get away, get off the hook, get out, get rid, get rid of, heal, preserve, rescue, rid, salvage, save, skip, spare), ikje (back track, backtrack, departure, exit, getaway, go off, leg-bail, outgo, parting, passing, recession). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فرار (bolt, elopement, escapade, flight, scamper, stampede), ‏فر (abscond, bolt, break away, decamp, elope, flee, flight, fly, get away, get free, get off, run away, run off, slope, take flight, take to one's heels), ‏مهرب (bootlegger, pusher, trafficker), ‏هارب (absconder, fleet, receding, run away, scampish), ‏هرب (abscond, contraband, drive away, elope, fled, flee, fleeing, fly, get away, get out of, powder, put to flight, run away, run first, run from smb., run off, shun, slope, smuggle, take flight, take to one's heels, tamper, traffic, turn tail), ‏نجاة (salvation), ‏نجا (come through, lick into shape, rap, ride out, shave), ‏وسيلة فرار, ‏غاب عن الذاكرة (slip), ‏تهرب من الواقع, ‏تخلص من (clear off, disembarrass, disengage, disposal, dispose of, ditch, do dispose of, doff, drown, elimination, exorcise, exorcize, free, get out of, get rid of, jettison, liquidate, mop up, outgrow, polish up, put off, rid, scrap, sell up, shake, shake off, slough, turn, turn off, weed, weed out, work off), ‏خلاص (deliverance, riddance, salvation), ‏إنبعث (emanate, emit, exhale, issue, regenerate, waft), ‏إرتشح (infiltrate), ‏أفلت. (various references)

Bulgarian 

спасяване (redemption, rescue, retrieval, retrieve, save, saving), освобождавам се от (clear off, dispense with, eliminate), ескейпизъм (escapism), бягство от действителността (escapism, ivory tower), бягство (bunk, flight, flying, getaway, runway), преливник на язовирна стена, изтръгвам се, изтичане (discharge, effluence, efflux, effusion, expiration, expiry, flow, fluxion, issuance, issue, leak, leakage, outflow, outgo, outlet, seepage, termination), изтичам (determine, expire, finish, issue, leak, outflow, run, run off, run out, sluice, wear through), измъквам се (fink, get out of, hike, recede, ride up, skin away, skip, skulk off, slip off, slope, steal away, steal out, unthread, weasel, work off), избягване (elopement, elusion, escapade, evasion), избягвам (abscond, break loose, break out, circumnavigate, dodge, elope, elude, evade, gallop away, get away, get off, get out, go off, make a break for it, mizzle, obviate, prevent, run, run away, run off, scarper, scuttle away, shrink away, shun, skirt around, skitter, take flight), изплъзвам се неволно, изплъзвам се (run off, slip away, slip off, slip out). (various references)

Chinese 

逃走 (flee), 逃避 (evade, shirk), 逃之夭夭 (make a getaway), 逃命, 逸 (leisurely, outstanding), 避 (avoid, flee, leave, shun, to hide, to keep away, to leave), 竄 (flee, leap, run away). (various references)

Czech

vyváznout (pull through), vytékat (issue, run), utéci (abscond, boil over, elope, flee, run away, run off, scape, take off), upláchnout (bilk, do a bunk, pop off, scape), prchnout, útìk (elopement, flight, getaway, rout, run, scape), únik (discharge, elusion, getaway, issue, leak, scape). (various references)

Danish

undkomme (flee), undfly (flee). (various references)

Dutch

ontsnapping (exhaust), ontsnappen (flee), ontkomen (flee), ontgaan (flee). (various references)

Esperanto

eskapo, eskapi (flee). (various references)

Faeroese

sleppa (allow, drop, flee, leave, let, overthrow, release). (various references)

Farsi 

فرارکردن (Abscond, Elope, Flight, Scape, Skedaddle, Stampede), فرار (Breakaway, Desertion, Evasive, Guy, Lam, Scape), گریز (Allusion, Desertion, Digression, Evasion, Flight, Guy, Jink, Scamper, Scuttle, Subterfuge, Truancy), گریختن (Abscond, Desert, Runaway, Shun, Skedaddle, Slip), خلاصی جستن , خلاصی (Quit, Rescue, Riddance), جان بدربردن , رهاءی جستن , رهاءی (Deliverance, Delivery, Release, Rescue, Riddance, Salvation), رستن (Grow), دررفتن (Abscond, Scuttle). (various references)

Finnish

päästä karkuun (flee, get away). (various references)

French

s'échapper, échapper. (various references)

German

entweichen (avoid, elude, evade, leak, run away, to escape), entkommen (elude, evade, get away, getaway, to escape). (various references)

Greek 

δραπετεύω (abscond, break away, get away, run away, slink, steal), διαφυγή (leakage). (various references)

Hebrew 

להנצל (be rescued, be saved, survive), ברח, בריחה (bankruptcy, desertion, flight), הנצלות (saving, survival), החלצות (getting out of trouble, volunteering), המלטות (rescue), פלטה (remmant), ניסה (flight), לברוח (flee, fling off, get away, make haste, make off, run, run away, run off, scamper, take flight, take to ones heels, turn tail), מלוט (deliverance, extrication, rescue, salvation), להחלץ (get out of), להשתמט (dodge, eschew, evade, malinger, neglect, shirk, swing the lead, temporize), להמלט (flee, fly, get away, make off, run away, take to ones heels), לערוק (bolt, desert, flee, rat, renegade, tergiversate), לפלוט (blurt, deliver, disgorge, eject, emit, slip, spew, throw up, vomit), מנוס (flight, refuge, retreat, way out), מפלט (asylum, haven, refuge, retreat, shelter), לנוס (flee, fly, turn tail). (various references)

Hungarian

szökés (desertion, elopement, flyer, flying, get-out), menekülés (flight, flying, getaway, readiest means of escape, readiest way of escape, runaway, scuttle). (various references)

Indonesian

pelolosan, pelarian (get away), membolos (desert, play-truant), kelepasan (freedom, the way out). (various references)

Irish

éalaigh. (various references)

Italian

sfuggire (avoid, elope, shirk, slip, slip out), scarico (discharge, discharging, drainage, dumping, exhaust, flat, outgo, outlet, plughole, unloaded, unloading), evasione (breakaway, elopement, evasion, flight, fuite, gaolbreak, gaolbreaking, get away, getaway, jailbreak, jailbreaking, transaction), evadere (bilk, despatch, dispatch, evade, get away, run away). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

逃走 (desertion, flight), 逃避 (evasion, flight), 逃亡, 脱走 (desertion), 脱出. (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たかとび (flight, high jump), にげば (refuge), にげ (evasion, getaway), かくちょう (apex of a shell, dignified, enlargement, expansion, extension, noble, umbo), いっそう (a clean sweep, a pair, all the more, master sergeant, much more, one ship or boat, scamper away, scud, still more), いっしゅつ (excelling, prominence), ろうえい (disclosure, leakage, recitation), エスケープ , とうそう (chilblains, conflict, desertion, faction, flight, frostbite, smallpox, strife, variola), とうひ (equal ratio, evasion, flight, justice, pitchers fly, propriety, right or wrong, scalp, spruce tree, suppression of bandits), とうぼう, とんずら (fleeing), とんそう (fleeing), だっそう (desertion), だっしゅつ. (various references)

Korean 

도주. (various references)

Manx

shaghney (avert, avoid, circumvent, circumvention, defer, deferment, delay, dodge, elude, eschew, evade, obviate, postponement, prevent, renounce, renunciation, repudiate, shirk, shirking, shun, turn away, varnish), scapail (abscond, absconding, abscondment, avoid, elude). (various references)

Norwegian

unnslippe, unngå (avoid, evade), rømning, flukt (flight). (various references)

Papiamen

hui (flee, run away). (various references)

Pig Latin