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Synonyms
escape

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
  4. be incomprehensible to: escape understanding by
  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"
  7. flee: take to one's heels

noun

  1. the act of escaping physically: "he made his escape from the mental hospital"
  2. an inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy: "romantic novels were her escape from the stress of daily life"
  3. the unwanted discharge of a fluid from some container: "they tried to stop the escape of gas from the damaged pipe"
  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"
  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"
  8. a plant originally cultivated but now growing wild