Decrease and Escape

decrease

A change downward.
- usage: "there was a decrease in his temperature as the fever subsided"; "there was a sharp drop-off in sales"
- synonyms: lessening, drop-off
A process of becoming smaller or shorter.
- synonyms: decrement
The amount by which something decreases.
- synonyms: decrement
The act of decreasing or reducing something.
- synonyms: diminution, reduction, step-down

Decrease in size, extent, or range.
- usage: "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper"
- synonyms: diminish, lessen, fall
Make smaller.
- usage: "He decreased his staff"
- synonyms: lessen, minify

(v.t.) To cause to grow less; to diminish gradually; as, extravagance decreases one's means.
(v.) A becoming less; gradual diminution; decay; as, a decrease of revenue or of strength.
(n.) To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc. or in strength, quality or excellence; as, they days decrease in length from June to December.
(v.) The wane of the moon.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

escape

The act of escaping physically.
- usage: "he made his escape from the mental hospital"; "the canary escaped from its cage"; "his flight was an indication of his guilt"
- synonyms: flight
An inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy.
- usage: "romantic novels were her escape from the stress of daily life"; "his alcohol problem was a form of escapism"
- synonyms: escapism
Nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do.
- usage: "his evasion of his clear duty was reprehensible"; "that escape from the consequences is possible but unattractive"
- synonyms: evasion, dodging
An avoidance of danger or difficulty.
- usage: "that was a narrow escape"
A means or way of escaping.
- usage: "hard work was his escape from worry"; "they installed a second hatch as an escape"; "their escape route"
A plant originally cultivated but now growing wild.
The discharge of a fluid from some container.
- usage: "they tried to stop the escape of gas from the damaged pipe"; "he had to clean up the leak"
- synonyms: leak, leakage, outflow
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.
- synonyms: safety valve, relief valve, escape valve, escape cock

Run away from confinement.
- usage: "The convicted murderer escaped from a high security prison"
- synonyms: get away, break loose
Fail to experience.
- usage: "Fortunately, I missed the hurricane"
- synonyms: miss
Escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action.
- usage: "She gets away with murder"; "I couldn't get out from under these responsibilities"
- synonyms: get off, get away, get by, get out
Be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by.
- usage: "What you are seeing in him eludes me"
- synonyms: elude
Remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion.
- usage: "We escaped to our summer house for a few days"; "The president of the company never manages to get away during the summer"
- synonyms: get away
Flee; take to one's heels; cut and run.
- usage: "If you see this man, run"; "The burglars escaped before the police showed up"
- synonyms: scat, run, scarper, turn tail, lam, run away, hightail it, bunk, head for the hills, take to the woods, fly the coop, break away
Issue or leak, as from a small opening.
- usage: "Gas escaped into the bedroom"

(v.i.) To get clear from danger or evil of any form; to be passed without harm.
(v.) To flee from and avoid; to be saved or exempt from; to shun; to obtain security from; as, to escape danger.
(n.) An apophyge.
(n.) Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid.
(n.) That which escapes attention or restraint; a mistake; an oversight; also, transgression.
(v.i.) To flee, and become secure from danger; -- often followed by from or out of.
(n.) A sally.
(n.) The unlawful permission, by a jailer or other custodian, of a prisoner's departure from custody.
(n.) 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.
(v.) To avoid the notice of; to pass unobserved by; to evade; as, the fact escaped our attention.
(n.) Leakage or loss of currents from the conducting wires, caused by defective insulation.
(v.i.) 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.
(n.) A plant which has escaped from cultivation.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary