DICTOMETER

ESCAPE

(escape, escapar, escaparse, fugarse, flukt, flykte, rømme, rømning, unngå, unnslippe)

1. Synonyms:
   • Escape
   • Flight
   Definitions:
   • the act of escaping physically
   Examples:
   • He made his escape from the mental hospital
   • The canary escaped from its cage
   • His flight was an indication of his guilt
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Escape
   • Escapism
   Definitions:
   • an inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy
   Examples:
   • Romantic novels were her escape from the stress of daily life
   • His alcohol problem was a form of escapism
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Evasion
   • Escape
   • Dodging
   Definitions:
   • nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do
   Examples:
   • His evasion of his clear duty was reprehensible
   • That escape from the consequences is possible but unattractive
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Escape
   Definitions:
   • an avoidance of danger or difficulty
   Examples:
   • That was a narrow escape
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Escape
   Definitions:
   • a means or way of escaping
   Examples:
   • Hard work was his escape from worry
   • They installed a second hatch as an escape
   • Their escape route
   
   
6. Synonyms:
   • Escape
   Definitions:
   • a plant originally cultivated but now growing wild
   
   
7. Synonyms:
   • Escape
   • Leak
   • Leakage
   • Outflow
   Definitions:
   • the discharge of a fluid from some container
   Examples:
   • They tried to stop the escape of gas from the damaged pipe
   • He had to clean up the leak
   
   
8. Synonyms:
   • Safety valve
   • Relief valve
   • Escape valve
   • Escape cock
   • Escape
   Definitions:
   • 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
   
   

1. Synonyms:
   • Escape
   • Get away
   • Break loose
   Definitions:
   • run away from confinement
   Examples:
   • The convicted murderer escaped from a high security prison
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Miss
   • Escape
   Definitions:
   • fail to experience
   Examples:
   • Fortunately, I missed the hurricane
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Get off
   • Get away
   • Get by
   • Get out
   • Escape
   Definitions:
   • escape potentially unpleasant consequences
   • get away with a forbidden action
   Examples:
   • She gets away with murder!
   • I couldn't get out from under these responsibilities
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Elude
   • Escape
   Definitions:
   • be incomprehensible to
   • escape understanding by
   Examples:
   • What you are seeing in him eludes me
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Escape
   • Get away
   Definitions:
   • remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion
   Examples:
   • We escaped to our summer house for a few days
   • The president of the company never manages to get away during the summer
   
   
6. Synonyms:
   • Scat
   • Run
   • Scarper
   • Turn tail
   • Lam
   • Run away
   • Hightail it
   • Bunk
   • Head for the hills
   • Take to the woods
   • Escape
   • Fly the coop
   • Break away
   Definitions:
   • flee
   • take to one's heels
   • cut and run
   Examples:
   • If you see this man, run!
   • The burglars escaped before the police showed up
   
   
7. Synonyms:
   • Escape
   Definitions:
   • issue or leak, as from a small opening
   Examples:
   • Gas escaped into the bedroom