Definitions of ESCAPE [ɪˈskeɪp]

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Definition of 'ESCAPE'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.i.) escape
to slip or get away, as from confinement or restraint.

2.  escape
to avoid capture, punishment, or any threatened evil.

3.  escape
to issue from a confining enclosure, as a gas or liquid.

4.  escape
to slip away; fade.

5.  escape
(of an orig. cultivated plant) to grow wild.

6. (v.t.) escape
to slip away from or elude:
to escape the police.

7.  escape
to succeed in avoiding:
to escape capture.

8.  escape
to elude (one's memory, notice, search, etc.).

9.  escape
(of a sound or utterance) to slip from or be expressed by inadvertently.

10. (n.) escape
an act or instance of escaping.

11.  escape
the fact of having escaped.

12.  escape
a means of escaping.

13.  escape
avoidance of reality.

14.  escape
leakage, as of water or gas, from a pipe or storage container.

15.  escape
a plant that originated in cultivated stock and is now growing wild.

16.  escape
a key on a microcomputer keyboard, often used to return to a previous program screen.

17. (adj.) escape
for or providing an escape:
an escape hatch.

Etymology: (1250–1300; < ONF escaper (F échapper) < VL *excappāre, v. der. (with ex-ex -¹) of LL cappa hooded cloak (see cap¹))

Definition of 'ESCAPE'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) escape, flight
the act of escaping physically
"he made his escape from the mental hospital"; "the canary escaped from its cage"; "his flight was an indication of his guilt"

2. (noun) escape, escapism
an inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy
"romantic novels were her escape from the stress of daily life"; "his alcohol problem was a form of escapism"

3. (noun) evasion, escape, dodging
nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do
"his evasion of his clear duty was reprehensible"; "that escape from the consequences is possible but unattractive"

4. (noun) escape
an avoidance of danger or difficulty
"that was a narrow escape"

5. (noun) escape
a means or way of escaping
"hard work was his escape from worry"; "they installed a second hatch as an escape"; "their escape route"

6. (noun) escape
a plant originally cultivated but now growing wild

7. (noun) escape, leak, leakage, outflow
the discharge of a fluid from some container
"they tried to stop the escape of gas from the damaged pipe"; "he had to clean up the leak"

8. (verb) safety valve, relief valve, escape valve, escape cock, escape
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

9. (verb) escape, get away, break loose
run away from confinement
"The convicted murderer escaped from a high security prison"

10. (verb) miss, escape
fail to experience
"Fortunately, I missed the hurricane"

11. (verb) get off, get away, get by, get out, escape
escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action
"She gets away with murder!"; "I couldn't get out from under these responsibilities"

12. (verb) elude, escape
be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by
"What you are seeing in him eludes me"

13. (verb) escape, get away
remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion
"We escaped to our summer house for a few days"; "The president of the company never manages to get away during the summer"

14. (verb) 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
flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
"If you see this man, run!"; "The burglars escaped before the police showed up"

15. (verb) escape
issue or leak, as from a small opening
"Gas escaped into the bedroom"

Definition of 'ESCAPE'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (verb) escape
to get away from a dangerous place
prisoners escaping from jail; The boy escaped through the back door.

2.  escape
to avoid a bad experience
Only one soldier escaped injury.; teens trying to escape the world of drugs

3.  escape
to come out of
No sound escaped from her lips.; poisonous gas escaping from the wrecked train

4. (noun) escape
the act of escaping from a place or situation
a lucky escape from the fire; his escape from a life of poverty

5.  escape
a narrow escape
a situation in which sb comes close to being caught, hurt, ill, etc.

6.  escape
a way to avoid dealing with sth unpleasant
After the war, music became his escape.

Definition of 'ESCAPE'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) ESCAPE
the act of fleeing from danger, of evading harm, or of avoiding notice; deliverance from injury or any evil; flight; as, an escape in battle; a narrow escape; also, the means of escape; as, a fire escape

2. (noun) ESCAPE
that which escapes attention or restraint; a mistake; an oversight; also, transgression

3. (noun) ESCAPE
a sally

4. (noun) ESCAPE
the unlawful permission, by a jailer or other custodian, of a prisoner's departure from custody

5. (noun) ESCAPE
an apophyge

6. (noun) ESCAPE
leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid

7. (noun) ESCAPE
leakage or loss of currents from the conducting wires, caused by defective insulation

8. ESCAPE
to flee from and avoid; to be saved or exempt from; to shun; to obtain security from; as, to escape danger

9. ESCAPE
to avoid the notice of; to pass unobserved by; to evade; as, the fact escaped our attention

10. (verb) ESCAPE
to flee, and become secure from danger; -- often followed by from or out of

11. (verb) ESCAPE
to get clear from danger or evil of any form; to be passed without harm

12. (verb) ESCAPE
to get free from that which confines or holds; -- used of persons or things; as, to escape from prison, from arrest, or from slavery; gas escapes from the pipes; electricity escapes from its conductors

Definition of 'ESCAPE'

The Standard Electrical Dictionary

1. ESCAPE
A term applied to leakage of current.

Translation of 'ESCAPE'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to gain freedom He escaped from prison.
Afrikaans: ontsnapping	Arabic: يَهْرُب	Bulgarian: избягвам
Brazilian: escapar	Czech: uprchnout	German: entkommen
Danish: flygte; undslippe	Greek: δραπετεύω	Spanish: escapar(se)
Estonian: põgenema, pääsema	Farsi: فرار کردن	Finnish: paeta
French: s'évader (de)	Hebrew: לִברוֹח	Hindi: भागना
Croatian: pobjeći	Hungarian: megszökik	Indonesian: melarikan diri
Icelandic: sleppa, brjóstast út, flÿ	Italian: evadere	Japanese: 逃げる
Korean: 탈출하다	Lithuanian: pabėgti	Latvian: izbēgt (no ieslodzījuma)
Malay: terlepas	Dutch: ontsnappen	Norwegian: slippe ut, unnslippe, gå
Polish: uciekać	Persian: فرار کردن	Pashto: تښتیدل
Portuguese: escapar	Romanian: a evada	Russian: совершать побег
Slovak: ujsť	Slovenian: pobegniti	Serbian: pobeći
Swedish: rymma	Thai: หนี	Turkish: kaçmak
Taiwanese: 逃跑	Ukrainian: врятуватися	Urdu: بندش سے آزاد ہونا
Vietnamese: trốn thoát	Chinese: 逃跑
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