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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!
1. a. : to get away (as by flight) escaped from prison. b. : to issue from confinement. gas is escaping. c. of a plant : to run wild from cultivation. 2. : to avoid a threatening evil. the boat sank but the crew escaped. transitive verb.
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.
Definitions of escape. verb. run away from confinement. “The convicted murderer escaped from a high security prison” synonyms: break loose, get away. see more. verb. flee; take to one's heels; cut and run. “The burglars escaped before the police showed up”
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 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.
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.
