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adjective
- 1. having broken free from confinement or control: "escaped convicts"
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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.
adjective [ before noun ] uk / ɪˈskeɪpt / us / ɪˈskeɪpt / Add to word list. having got free: an escaped prisoner. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Freedom to act. (as) free as a bird idiom. agency. at will idiom. autonomist. autonomous. free hand. free pass. free rein idiom. free spirit. free-spirited. non-autonomous. non-didactic.
Escape definition: to slip or get away, as from confinement or restraint; gain or regain liberty. See examples of ESCAPE used in a sentence.
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.
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.
n. 1. The act or an instance of escaping. 2. A means of escaping. 3. A means of obtaining temporary freedom from worry, care, or unpleasantness: Television is my escape from worry. 4. A gradual effusion from an enclosure; a leakage. 5. Biology A cultivated plant or a domesticated or confined animal that has become established in the wild. 6.
Definitions of escaped. adjective. having escaped, especially from confinement. “searching for two escaped prisoners”. synonyms: at large, loose, on the loose. free. able to act at will; not hampered; not under compulsion or restraint. Pronunciation. US.
adjective. having broken free from confinement. Officers mistook Stephen for an escaped prisoner. the son of an escaped slave. Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers. Examples of 'escaped' in a sentence. escaped.
Definition of escaped adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
