escape Definition

escape
verb escaped, escaping

intr
1. To gain freedom.

Thesaurus: flee, break out, break loose, break free, get away, slip away, dodge, elude, bolt, skedaddle, vamoose (slang).
2. To manage to avoid (punishment or disease, etc).
3. Not to be noticed or remembered by someone.

Example: Nothing escapes his notice
intr
4. Said of a gas or liquid, etc: to leak out or get out.
5. Said of words, etc: to be uttered unintentionally by someone.

noun

1. An act of escaping.

Thesaurus: flight, breakout, getaway, jailbreak; evasion, circumvention, elusion.
2. A means of escape.
3. The avoidance of danger or harm.

Example: a narrow escape
4. A leak or release.
5. Something providing a break or distraction.
6. Something which has escaped, especially a plant originally cultivated as a garden plant but now growing in the wild.

Derivative: escapable
adj

Derivative: escaper
noun

Etymology: 14c: from French escaper, probably from Latin excappare to remove one's cape.