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- Dictionaryes·cape/əˈskāp/
verb
- 1. break free from confinement or control: "two burglars have just escaped from prison" Similar Opposite
- 2. fail to be noticed or remembered by (someone): "the name escaped him"
noun
- 1. an act of breaking free from confinement or control: "the story of his escape from a POW camp" Similar Opposite
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to get free from something such as a prison or cage, or from someone who will not allow you to leave: Two prisoners have escaped. escape from A lion has escaped from its cage. She was kidnapped but escaped her captors. Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples. to forget something. forget I can't believe I've forgotten her birthday!
The meaning of ESCAPE is to get away (as by flight). How to use escape in a sentence. Did you know? Synonym Discussion of Escape.
To escape is to break free, to get out of a situation you don’t want to be in. It’s also a noun, as in an escape from a dull party that might involve a ladder and an upstairs window. It’s hard to pin down the word escape .
To escape is to succeed in keeping away from danger, pursuit, observation, etc.: to escape punishment. To elude implies baffling pursuers or slipping through an apparently tight net: The fox eluded the hounds.
To escape is to succeed in keeping away from danger, pursuit, observation, etc.: to escape punishment. To elude implies baffling pursuers or slipping through an apparently tight net: The fox eluded the hounds.
1. to get away or break free from (confinements, captors, etc): the lion escaped from the zoo. 2. to manage to avoid (imminent danger, punishment, evil, etc): to escape death. 3. (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.
Definition of escape verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
an occasion when someone succeeds in getting out of a place or a dangerous or bad situation: There was an escape from the prison last night. More examples. a narrow escape.
escape. noun. /ɪˈskeɪp/. /ɪˈskeɪp/. Idioms. [countable, uncountable] the act or a method of escaping from a place or an unpleasant or dangerous situation. I had a narrow escape (= I was lucky to have escaped). He had a lucky escape when his car skidded out of control.
to slip or get away, as from confinement or restraint; gain or regain liberty: to escape from jail. to slip away from pursuit or peril; avoid capture, punishment, or any threatened evil. to issue from a confining enclosure, as a fluid.
