Escape and Avoiding

noun

• 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

verb

• 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.