Definitions for escape

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escape es·cape

Spelling: [ih-skeyp]

IPA: /ɪˈskeɪp/

Escape is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 102 anagrams from letters in escape (aceeps).

Definitions for escape

noun

1. an act or instance of escaping. Synonyms: flight.
2. the fact of having escaped.
3. a means of escaping:
4. avoidance of reality:
5. leakage, as of water or gas, from a pipe or storage container.
6. Botany. a plant that originated in cultivated stock and is now growing wild.
7. Physics, Rocketry. the act of achieving escape velocity.
8. (usually initial capital letter) Computers. Escape key.
9. a key (frequently labeled Esc) found on most computer keyboards and used for any of various functions, as to interrupt or cancel the current process or running program, or to close a pop-up window.

adjective

1. for or providing an escape:

verb (used with object)

1. to slip away from or elude (pursuers, captors, etc.): Synonyms: dodge, flee, avoid.
2. to succeed in avoiding (any threatened or possible danger or evil):
3. to elude (one's memory, notice, search, etc.).
4. to fail to be noticed or recollected by (a person):
5. (of a sound or utterance) to slip from or be expressed by (a person, one's lips, etc.) inadvertently.

verb (used without object)

1. to slip or get away, as from confinement or restraint; gain or regain liberty: Synonyms: flee, abscond, decamp.
2. to slip away from pursuit or peril; avoid capture, punishment, or any threatened evil.
3. to issue from a confining enclosure, as a fluid.
4. to slip away; fade:
5. Botany. (of an originally cultivated plant) to grow wild.
6. (of a rocket, molecule, etc.) to achieve escape velocity.

Origin of escape

1250-1300; Middle English escapen, ascapen Old North French escaper (French échapper) Vulgar Latin *excappāre, verbal derivative (with ex- ex-¹) of Late Lati

Examples for escape

True, the plant has enemies, like everything else, enemies which it may not escape.

The irony did not escape one local, Laith Hathim, as he stood and watched the newly minted refugees make their way into Mosul.

After the captain made the call to abandon ship, 150 people were able to escape on lifeboats lowered by electronic arms.

She helped Geta to escape: they have both taken refuge in the Temple of Theseus.

Cubans are cursed whether they find a means of escape or remain.

Then when we arrive at his flat in Shepherd's Bush following the escape, perhaps there ought to be remnants of the ladder.

He went back to the farmhouse to tell Paul of his nephew's escape.

The rashness of such a requirement and statement can escape no one.

He little knew how narrow an escape he had had of losing a third!

He wants to know every external detail, even if the escape is ultimately to be shot on a sound stage.