Overview of verb escape

The verb escape has 7 senses

• escape, get away, break loose -- (run away from confinement; "The convicted murderer escaped from a high security prison")


• miss, escape -- (fail to experience; "Fortunately, I missed the hurricane")


• 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")


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


• 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")


• 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")


• escape -- (issue or leak, as from a small opening; "Gas escaped into the bedroom")

Overview of adj escaped

The adj escaped has 1 sense

• at large, escaped, loose, on the loose -- (having escaped, especially from confinement; "a convict still at large"; "searching for two escaped prisoners"; "dogs loose on the streets"; "criminals on the loose in the neighborhood")