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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024es•cape /ɪˈskeɪp/USA pronunciation v., -caped, -cap•ing, n., adj. v. - to slip or get away, as from confinement or jail:[~ (+ from + object)]How did the mice escape from their cage?
- to avoid (capture, punishment, injury, or the like): [~ + object]The town escaped the worst of the storm.[no object]managed to escape with only cuts and bruises.
- to issue from a confining enclosure, as a gas or liquid:[no object]Air escaped from the balloon.
- to fail to remember or notice:[~ + object]His name escapes me at the moment.
n. - [countable] an act or instance of escaping.
- a way or means of escaping: [countable]We used the tunnel as an escape.[uncountable]The back door is your only means of escape.
- a way or means of avoiding reality:[countable]liked to read mystery stories as an escape.
adj. [before a noun] - for or providing an escape:an escape hatch.
- Computingbeing a key on a microcomputer keyboard, often used to return to a previous program screen:Hit the escape key.
escape, elude, evade mean to keep free of something. To escape is to succeed in keeping away from danger, from being chased or observed, etc.:to escape punishment. To elude is to slip through an apparently tight net, thus avoiding, often by a narrow margin, whatever threatens; it implies using skill or cleverness to baffle or fool:The fox eluded the hounds by his clever twists and turns. To evade is to turn aside from or go out of reach of a person or thing, usually by using a trick to direct attention elsewhere:to evade the police. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024es•cape (i skāp′),USA pronunciation v., -caped, -cap•ing, n., adj. v.i. - 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.
- to slip away;
fade:The words escaped from memory. - Botany(of an originally cultivated plant) to grow wild.
- Rocketry(of a rocket, molecule, etc.) to achieve escape velocity.
v.t. - to slip away from or elude (pursuers, captors, etc.):He escaped the police.
- to succeed in avoiding (any threatened or possible danger or evil):She escaped capture.
- to elude (one's memory, notice, search, etc.).
- to fail to be noticed or recollected by (a person):Her reply escapes me.
- (of a sound or utterance) to slip from or be expressed by (a person, one's lips, etc.) inadvertently.
n. - an act or instance of escaping.
- the fact of having escaped.
- a means of escaping:We used the tunnel as an escape.
- avoidance of reality:She reads mystery stories as an escape.
- leakage, as of water or gas, from a pipe or storage container.
- Botanya plant that originated in cultivated stock and is now growing wild.
- Rocketry, Physics[Physics, Rocketry.]the act of achieving escape velocity.
- Computinga key (frequently labeled ESC) found on microcomputer keyboards and used for any of various functions, as to interrupt a command or move from one part of a program to another.
adj. - for or providing an escape:an escape route.
- Vulgar Latin *excappāre, verb, verbal derivative (with ex- ex-1) of Late Latin cappa hooded cloak (see cap1)
- Old North French escaper (French échapper)
- Middle English escapen, ascapen 1250–1300
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged flee, abscond, decamp.
- 7.See corresponding entry in Unabridged dodge, flee, avoid. Escape, elude, evade mean to keep free of something. 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 evade is to turn aside from or go out of reach of a person or thing:to evade the police.See also avoid.
- 12.See corresponding entry in Unabridged flight.
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